On Mon, Jul 08 2013,Skip Montanaro wrote: >>> 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
Wasn't it C-x ( ? From the manual In addition to the <F3> and <F4> commands described above, Emacs also supports an older set of key bindings for defining and executing keyboard macros. To begin a macro definition, type `C-x (' (`kmacro-start-macro'); as with <F3>, a prefix argument appends this definition to the last keyboard macro. To end a macro definition, type `C-x )' (`kmacro-end-macro'). To execute the most recent macro, type `C-x e' (`kmacro-end-and-call-macro'). If you enter `C-x e' while sivaram -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list