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Re:Big things to expect from Emacs 25 by quotemstr on Saturday November 08, 2014 @01:12PM (#8577656)
I tend to jump straight to Emacs Lisp for anything more complex than trivial keyboard macros. It's well worth learning how to perform text manipulation in that environment.

I once programmed Emacs to convert an entire component of Windows Phone from Hungarian notation to something saner.

Re:Big things to expect from Emacs 25 by barrkel on Sunday November 09, 2014 @12:24PM (#8580292)
I do too. Trivial macros come up very often when I'm using editors other than Emacs - I'd typically create and play back one every few minutes in other editors - but far more rarely in Emacs. Like I said, multiple cursors fills a very similar hole better, because it's not as sensitive to a C-g in the minibuffer.