[h-e-w] Regarding repeated inerts: patn-insert.el

[Mills Thomas (app1tam)]

Someone had asked about repetetive inserts.  I have a suggestion.  I've had
a tool in my elisp directory for a decade or more that I've used regularly.
The file is patn-insert.el and is probably available in an elisp archive.
It has worked well for me.  Here's a brief blurb from the file:

;; Repetitititive insertion functions.
;; Copyright (C) 1990 Bard Bloom

;; A gizmo for quickly generating text with a pattern, and in particular 
;; arithmetic progressions.  For example, you might want to 
;; create text looking like:
;;   `a' --> 97         and the square of that is 9409
;;   `b' --> 98         and the square of that is 9604
;;   `c' --> 99         and the square of that is 9801
;;   `d' --> 100        and the square of that is 10000
;;   `e' --> 101        and the square of that is 10201

;; This was generated by the command
;; m-x insert-patterned 
;; with arguments ";;   `%c' --> %d     and the square of that is %(* i i)",
;;                ?a, 
;; and            ?e
;;

If you're listening, thanks Bard!

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