[PLUG] Changing Case in a List of Names

[Rogan Creswick]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You can use emacs to interactively record a macro for this purpose.
> In fact, since I prefer programming by demonstration for these sorts
> of tasks I usually use emacs and teach it what to do.
>

I also tend to take Jason's approach unless I have more than 2 files
that need the same manipulations.

Just to add -- once you've developed a functional macro that you think
you'll need again:

M-x name-last-kbd-macro   to give it a name

(now you can run it by name too, if you want -- it's just like any
other emacs function now that it has a name! eg: M-x myMacro)

Then, if you want to save it, just pop open your .emacs and run:

M-x insert-kbd-macro

It will prompt you for the name, and then write it out at the point,
and every new emacs session will have access to that as a new
function.  (so you can do things like bind it to a keystroke, rename
it, use it in new macros, even edit it if you're incredibly brave ;)

--Rogan




> Open the file in question.  Then type C-x C-(, this will begin
> recording a macro.  Then hit C-a for beginning of line, M-c, or M-x
> capitalize-word, then hit C-n for the next line.  Now type C-x C-) to
> end the macro.  You can now repeat this macro with C-u N C-x C-e,
> where N is the number of times you want to execute the macro.  Or just
> C-x C-e if you want to run the macro once.  After you memorize the
> basic dance of creating a line by line macro the only hard part is
> figuring out what commands to do in the middle, M-x capitalize-word in
> this case.  But, the nice part is you get a fairly general formula for
> text manipulation that takes just a few minutes to apply -- and you
> don't have to learn a programming language if you don't want to.
>
> I hope you find this useful in the future.
> Jason
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