I know exactly what you mean -- but perhaps it doesn't even have to be a macro, but a more powerful search-and-replace, with changing replacements.
My lisp-fu isn't good enough to implement this today, but I would find it really easy to:
* copy `#define a 0` with C-k, M-w, C-y, RET, C-y, RET, C-y, RET, ... (so copy the line and paste N times)
* begin interactive search-and-replace, with usual keybindings (Y for replace, N for skip, . for replace and stop)
* but with additional keybinding, e.g. + for change replacement and apply
Alternatively, the replace argument in M-% would be a [somehow-delimited] list of replacements, and + or capital Y would pop off the next replacement and begin using that.
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I know exactly what you mean -- but perhaps it doesn't even have to be a macro, but a more powerful search-and-replace, with changing replacements.
My lisp-fu isn't good enough to implement this today, but I would find it really easy to:
* copy `#define a 0` with C-k, M-w, C-y, RET, C-y, RET, C-y, RET, ... (so copy the line and paste N times)
* begin interactive search-and-replace, with usual keybindings (Y for replace, N for skip, . for replace and stop)
* but with additional keybinding, e.g. + for change replacement and apply
Alternatively, the replace argument in M-% would be a [somehow-delimited] list of replacements, and + or capital Y would pop off the next replacement and begin using that.