Re: need help in improving my boring-repeat function

[marc tfardy]

Am 24.01.14 09:44, schrieb C K Kashyap:
> Hi,
> I've written a function to do some repeated insertions of lines like this -
>
> (defun boring-repeat (count str)
>    (interactive "sEnter count: \nsEnter format string: \n")
>    (dotimes (i (string-to-number count))
>      (insert (format str i))))
>
> I was wondering how I could modify it so that I could optionally take a
> function that could modify "i"
>
> So if I call boring-repeat with 2 and hello%2d -> I'd get hello00 hello02
> but say I could want hello01 and hello 02 or someother transformation on i
>
> How can I go about implementing it?

Why not a macro with a formated counter?
C-x C-k C-c - for initial value
C-x C-k C-f - for formated string, e.g. hallo%02d
C-x C-k TAB - for insert


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