Emacs Rocks! Episode 05: Macros in style

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Welcome back to emacs rocks

last episode I did this cool stunt

but that doesn't work very well for real asserts

transpose-words just doesn't cut it

so it's time to bring out the *big guns*

macros

define macro, search for assertEquals

and when you do your macros, you have to show some care

and use some cool tricks

for instance, I can now jump to the opposing paren

using ctrl-meta-n

back again with ctrl-meta-p

okay, I go back and do a reverse search for comma

and a reverse search for equals

done

so since I did that in reverse,

it not only works for that long string,

but it also works for the array

and that's why I did the comma in reverse

it also works for my object

and my multiline object

nice!

so if you have some tricks in your back pocket,

you can make some really powerful macros

that was episode five

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