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>> 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.

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