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From: | Ken Goldman |
Subject: | Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals |
Date: | Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:22:50 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 |
As someone who uses keyboard macros constantly ...I think they're certainly faster to write than lisp, since there's no debug time.
For some specialized task I'll probably never use again, I can probably write the macro with less keystrokes than calling up .emacs and typing in the elisp.
For the rare times I think I'll need the command again, I assign it to a key chord or save it.
On 5/15/2015 4:18 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com> writes:If you know emacs, then it's an obvious keyboard macro.Keyboard macros is poor-man's programming and while they can be useful in many situations it is in many more situations better to write proper Lisp. When one gets some fluency with it it is not only infinitely more powerful (obviously) but also faster, safer, and less frustrating than keyboard macros.
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