More Lightning Articles Mar 31, 2005 by chromatic, Bob DuCharme, Shlomi Fish and Mark Leighton Fisher Customizing Emacs with Perl by Bob DuCharme Over time, I’ve accumulated a list of Emacs customizations I wanted to implement when I got the chance. For example, I’d like macros to perform certain global replaces just within a marked block, and I’d like a macro to reformat an Outlook formatted date