Emacs macro to generate a sequence?
emacs
Solution
If you are using Emacs 23 (and maybe 22?), use `kmacro-insert-counter` which is bound to `C-x C-k TAB` by default. So for your example, you'd do:
`C-x ( C-x C-k TAB . RET C-x )`
So start macro, insert counter followed by '.', newline, end macro. Then `C-x e e e e e e e` etc. Or `M-1 0 0 C-x e` to get 100 of them.
EDIT:
Forgot to mention you can set the counter to an initial value also. For example to start at 1 instead of 0 do `M-1 C-x C-k C-c`.
And if you don't want the counter to increment at a particular point, prefix it with `C-u`. Of course the keystrokes are getting a bit ridiculous at this point, so I usually bind a key to insert-but-don't-increment.
Problem
I was reading this article on how to create vi macros: vi sequence macro and I saw one useful macro to create a sequence in the buffer. 1. 2. ... 100. In vi, the trick is that one can hit ctrl-a over a number and it will add one to it, so this made the macro easy. I want to be able to do the same thing in emacs.