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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Repeat Last Macro
There are times I want to repeat a macro just a few times. I know you can do count@{0-9a-z":*} but sometimes I don't feel like counting. You can use @@ to repeat the last macro, and it's an easy command to type very quickly, so it fits the bill.
Fantastic advice, very useful for adding stuff in the beginning of a line. When I print of large amounts of text in IDL, you need to put print,' string goes here '.
So I define the macro which puts the print, ' in the begining and the ' in the end and with your advice, it's a piece of cake to do that for 50 lines. Just need to make sure I get my finger of the @ in time...
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Thanks, Travis. You just saved my job.
Fantastic advice, very useful for adding stuff in the beginning of a line. When I print of large amounts of text in IDL, you need to put print,' string goes here '.
So I define the macro which puts the print, ' in the begining and the ' in the end and with your advice, it's a piece of cake to do that for 50 lines. Just need to make sure I get my finger of the @ in time...
Many thanks!
Daniel
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