Re: Doing numbered changes in a buffer

[Quokka]

gamename wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a tcl file with lots of messages which are about as descriptive
> as this:
>
> puts "something went wrong"
> ...
> puts "something went wrong"
>
> Is there any way to do a string replace in the buffer such that each
> instance of "puts" would be assigned a unique message number? For
> example:
>
> puts "001 - something went wrong"
> ...
> puts "002 - something went wrong"

You could use a keyboard macro and the keyboard macro counter

From the help:

The command `C-x C-k C-i' (`kmacro-insert-counter') inserts the
current value of the keyboard macro counter and increments the counter
by 1.  You can use a numeric prefix argument to specify a different
increment.  If you just specify a `C-u' prefix, the last inserted
counter value is repeated and the counter is not incremented.  For
example, if you enter the following sequence while defining a macro


So the sequence is
C-x (
search for puts "something went wrong"
move cursor back to start of string
C-x C-k -Ci -> inserts the current counter value
C-x )

The C-x e to repeat.

Hope that helps
Paul