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Emacs: mode-local macro with dashes and dots

In Emacs, how can I make a macro, that is local to the HTML mode, and uses dashes and dots? Take a look at the Elisp below: (define-abbrev-table 'html-mode-abbrev-table '(("..." "…") ...
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Expand pattern under cursor to all files matching it

Is there anyway to let VIM expand the glob pattern to all files that match it? e.g when I type *.c, and press some key, it would become a.c b.c
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Handle local links to local files in emacs

I have a LaTeX document where I often have to insert pathnames of files on my machine of other LaTeX files. Is there a way in emacs do get the following: A command which opens a file selection ...
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Keyboard Shortcut To Send Text Strings To Program

How can I configure a shortcut key to send a text string to the current program? The purpose is to type common entries quicker (email address, street address, phone number, username, favorite quote, ...
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Is it possible to have a screen macro for this?

Here's my .screenrc: defscrollback 5000 vbell on vbell_msg " dierre!!! ---- Wuff!! " screen -t GRINDER ssh dierre@grinder.dierre.lan screen -t TRUNK attrcolor b ".I" termcap xterm ...
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Making shortcuts cross desktop environment, possible?

I'm a big fan of keyboards, so a lot of thing a done by combination of keys, like open a file browser, web browser etc. Is there some daemon that can monitor my key presses, and launch some program ...
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Vim markers and macros

Is there a way to make a macro operate up to a marker? I know if I do 5@a my macro will operate on 5 lines. Example: set marker with `mc` record a macro with `qa` ... now what? Obviously 'c@a just ...
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Is there a vim shortcut for <name of current file>?

In vim, if I'm working on a Python script, I will commonly type: :! python this_script.py to execute the script. Is there a shortcut for the name of the current file? If not, can I easily make one? ...
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Automating typing strings in xmacro

Could you show me how to write macro in xmacro (that will work in whole desktop environement) that is able to expand strings? e.g. I will type thx and it will expand to "thank you".
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How to invoke an Openoffice macro from the Linux command line

I have an OpenOfice macro that I want to use to process the contents of an OpenOffice file. I am able to do this by opening the file with OpenOffice and then running the macro. How do I invoke the ...