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I use Xemacs, and am very fond of its keyboard macros feature. You can search for substrings or regexps within your keyboard macro and do things like converting a list of names into a list of variable assignments, in one keystroke, saving lots of typing time. 
Ctrl-x-(           # start macro recording
Ctrl-x-)           # end macro recording

Ctrl-x-e           # execute macro
  
Ctrl-100 Ctrl-x-e  #execute macro 100 times

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Re: Re: Development Speed and Productivity
by Petruchio (Vicar) on Nov 28, 2000 at 12:07 UTC
    This is indeed handy, and vi folks should know how to do this too. In vim (my vi of choice), it goes like this:

    qa        # start recording to buffer a;
          # your choice of buffers: [0-9a-zA-Z"]

q         # end macro recording
@a        # execute macro a
100@a     # execute macro a 100 times

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    Same thing, really... only fewer keystrokes. {grin, duck, run}

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