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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Unexpected and difficult to understand SIGSEGV
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:

> (relatively) rarely (in comparison with other tasks), that I find it
> easier to Just Do It than to take the time and trouble to define, 

I don't know about vi -- a quick google suggests the same thing exists
as 'recording' -- but in emacs you can define an anonymous macro on the
fly just by doing the commands - i.e. record a sequence of keystrokes
for immediate or near-immediate replay.  I find it unbelievably useful.

> and then *remember to use*, a macro to do the same job.

Well if you only defined it 30 seconds ago, remembering is relatively
easy.