In Excel you can easily fill in a column with a list of values. Some times also in Emacs you my need to write down a bunch of similar code. The dotimes function with the “elsp eval” M-x : (Esc + : on windooze) will solve your trouble easily. Try out this code on scratch buffer:

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Okey, getting emacs working on Windows is a pain, but we deserve a better editor for us(tm).

I havce found a bunch of emacs alternative distributions, and this 64bit build seems a nice shot

Userful Commands:

1. keep-lines
2. sort-lines

For more similar options, see this "working with lines"

For playing with rectangles of text, see this tip

So you know I need Emacs on every PC I use.

On windows7 I stick with a linuxVM when possibile, but sometime you need maximum speed, and EmacsWin32 is a good guy. Then I read the exact description of my problem…

Emacs on my Windows 7 work laptop was annoying slow when starting (around 10s). If closed and restarted, startup was immediate until, after about 30 seconds, it was slow again. According to Google, slowness might be due to failing DNS lookups of the laptop's hostname.

and I find out this solution: stop netlogon service via a command like

net stop netlogon

The add also this line to your .emacs...

(setq w32-get-true-file-attributes nil)

!UPDATED!

Okey I love emacs, you are allowed to say I am a nerd. But I use emacs. So I could solve your problems with a Ctrl-Alt-x kung fu combination, involving yoga-like finger movements.

So do not mess with me… :D (I am like the Zohan, only with glasses :)

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Replacing on entiere set of files is hard in Emacs. But I find the correct mumbo-magic procedure, and gifted it to you:

• Call dired to list files in dir, or call find-dired if you need all sub directories.
• Mark the files you want. You can mark by regex by typing 【%m】.
• Type Q to call dired-do-query-replace-regexp.
• Type your find regex and replace string. (➲ common elisp regex pattern)
• For each occurrence, type y to replace, n to skip. Type 【Ctrl+g】 to abort the whole operation.
• Type ! to replace all occurrences in current file without asking, N to skip all possible replacement for rest of the current file. (N is emacs 23 only)
• To do the replacement on all files without further asking, type Y. (Emacs 23 only)
• Call ibuffer to list all opened files.
• Type 【*u】 to mark all unsaved files, type S to save all marked files, type D to close them all.

See this great article for more information

Org2Blog is a nice Emacs package to blog on Wordpress with Org-Mode. You can download it using the ELPA package manager, which is what I have done yesterday night. The Git Hub project page gives you a very clean explanation on how to use it, and a helpful FAQ.

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As you know, emacs rocks. This blog post give us an “Emacs Sitemap” for the newbies, and I stress…(edited content…)

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1. EmacsWiki: you probably already know this one, but it’s pretty useful for a variety of reasons.
2. EmacsRocks / @Emacsrocks: it’s a series of screencasts showing off cool, advanced Emacs features. Each screencast is very short and focused on one thing. Instant awesome.
3. EmacsRookie / @EmacsRookie: a blog with articles about different Emacs trips & tricks and features. More geared towards beginners (but my impression is that many people stay “beginners” of Emacs for quite a long time).
4. Steve Yegge described “10 Specific Ways to Improve Your Productivity With Emacs“. In particular, I’d recommend making Caps-Lock behave as an extra Control key (I didn’t swap, I just have one more Control key), invoke M-x without the Meta key (both C-x C-m and C-c C-m) and being comfortable with the buffer commands. For navigation, apart from incremental search, you can also use ace-jump.
5. Christian Johansen has an interesting intro article to Emacs Lisp.
6. hippie-expand is a pretty cool completion system, familiarise yourself with it.
7. yasnippet. Very cool snippet system. Just have a look at the EmacsRocks screencast on yasnippet.

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