Question

Let’s say I want to create a new document, and cycle quickly through a list.
If it’s only for one “word”, I think there should be a general way to do this.

For instance:

"blue orange red yellow black white"

Does anyone know a way how to cycle through those items when I create:

\begin{orange}

… and I want to press a key to cycle through this list, replacing orange with the next item on the list (doing this procedure in the opposite direction wouldn’t be hard then)?

I tried many different ideas with macro’s (placing the list on the top of the document, and doing a whole bunch of i-searches), but that doesn’t cut it.

I’d be willing to put the list in an elisp file, though I have no clue how to use that variable from elisp in, let’s say, a LaTeX document (.tex).

Answer 1

EDIT: I translated the macro into a function.

Here is a way I did it. I created a file called “list.list” where my “lists” are saved. I saved the LaTeX templates for Beamer in there. I inserted them like this:

Antibes Bergen Berkeley Berlin ..... Antibes

Note that you should always put the first entry in twice to allow it to loop.

Here is the code:

(defun cycle-list-word ()
  (interactive)
   (right-word)
   (backward-kill-word 1)
   (find-file "/emacs-24.1/list.list")
   (search-forward (substring-no-properties (car kill-ring)) nil t)
   (right-word)
   (backward-kill-word 1)
   (bury-buffer)
   (yank)
)