>> I couldn't live without the keyboard macro record and playback. > > I used to work with a programmer who couldn't live without his insulin > injections.
Hyperbole aside, two of my most common "crutches" are Emacs macros and bash history. Given how useful macros are, I find it very odd that recent versions of GNU Emacs dispensed with the old key binding to C-x c. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list