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Hi! Welcome back to Emacs rocks!

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It's episode 2 and today I have a real treat for you. Check it out!

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It's VimGolf! Yay!

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VimGolf is really cool, I really wish there was one for Emacs.

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It's a competition and the goal is to transform

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the starting file into the ending file

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in as few keystrokes as possible.

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So, this is challenge number 6 and

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there is a one to ten in letters and a one to ten in numbers

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and the goal is to get the one to ten lined up in two columns.

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So the best score into Vim is 17, is the winning score.

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So let's see if Emacs might do a little bit better.

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Ok, I'll run through it one time without commentary

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and then I'll run through it again and tell you what I'm doing.

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So pay attention to the keystrokes.

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Haha! Now wasn't that awesome.

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Let's see it again in slow motion.

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Ok, now we are back to the start.

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This is the first episode where I use macros but it won't be the last!

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Macros is a powerhorse in Emacs.

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So I start by defining a macro pressing F3

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then jump to the bottom and I delete all.

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This puts it into the kill ring and I erase the space

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and then I press Control-9

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Control-9 doesn't do anything on it's own,

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but it makes my next command repeat 9 times.

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Which is command p for previous line, 9 lines up

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Control-E, tab, yank, and my macro is finished.

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So I press F4 to complete my macro and now

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I can run that macro nine times, Control-9 F4.

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Done.

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And that was 12 keystrokes.

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Let me remind tou, best in Vim, 17.

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So, to reiterate

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Emacs rocks!