I suspect he means keyboard macros, as opposed to macros defined in emacs lisp using forms like defmacro. Keyboard macros allow you to record an arbitrary sequ

I suspect he means keyboard macros, as opposed to macros defined in emacs lisp using forms like defmacro. Keyboard macros allow you to record an arbitrary sequence of actions, whereas lisp macros allow you to perform arbitrary transformations on your code. I could be wrong though. Still, keyboard macros could be amazingly useful in an IDE setting.