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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals

From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 22:18:10 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) 
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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