I've used ctrl-w in a windows drracket keyboard macro before (and I just tested it again). Also, you can always use ctrl-u 6 ctrl-x e as a substitute for control-x e e e e e e. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Matthias Felleisen <<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I considered using a keyboard macro. The time to switch and rectangle-edit was less than what it took to do the macro. <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > FWIW, DrRacket does have keyboard macros but I see that control-w > (under windows, with menu keys disabled) interrupts the sequence so I > can't actually use them to do Matthias's edit easily in DrRacket (also > DrRacket is missing that cool control-x e e e e e e that Emacs does > these days). > > Robby > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Neil Van Dyke <<a href="mailto:neil@neilvandyke.org">neil@neilvandyke.org</a>> wrote: >> A few things for which I switch to Emacs, even when using DrRacket: >> >> * M-q to re-flow Racket comments that span multiple lines, to fill to some >> margin (like 79 or 80 columns). Note that Emacs has fancy "adaptive-fill", >> but something simple and Racket-comment-specific would be fine. >> >> * M-x quack-tidy RET to reindent all lines and tidy up extraneous >> whitespace. Using the pretty-printer, DrRacket could go a step further, to >> line-breaking. >> >> * Keyboard macros. These can get pretty powerful. Matthias's >> argument-reordering would be a simple example, and even for that, keyboard >> macros using sexp movement operations would be more robust than rectangle >> kill&yank. >> >> * Working with (editing, viewing, or doing keyboard macros with) more than 2 >> or 3 files at once. >> >> * Doing version control operations. >> >> * Editing non-Racket/Scheme text files. >> >> The first two have been on my mental list to add to DrRacket someday. But >> if any students are bored over winter break... :) >> >> -- >> <a href="http://www.neilvandyke.org/" target="_blank">http://www.neilvandyke.org/</a> >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev</a> >> > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev</a> _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>