Evil experiences

Tue Sep 13 14:09:26 CEST 2011

On 13 Sep 2011, York Zhao wrote:

>> Think of editing CSV files and you don't do the same every time so a
>> macro is not helpful. But moving to the next separator is. And I can
>> easily repeat it, hey even in the opposite direction in case I did
>> wrong!
>
> True enough, being able to repeat in this scenario will be handy, then
> use ",," for "," for example maybe a compromise?
>
>> The shadowing part should be clear, but I'll drop an example: You
>> shadow `find-char' and have some tedious repetitious task, say with
>> CSV files: Find the third field and enter something. Unless you have
>> some complex data (e.g. escaped field separators), you're fine with a
>> macro and `find-char'.
>
> Again, maybe ",," can be a compromise.

Sure, whatever works for you :) (Actually a great idea that I hadn't thought of
before, thanks!)

Michael
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