Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals

[Ken Goldman]

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.