>>I kind of cringe a bit because he learned something very special with a somewhat obscure language. >>Clever but there are better solutions. I doubt it. Bec

>>I kind of cringe a bit because he learned something very special with a somewhat obscure language. >>Clever but there are better solutions. I doubt it. Because that's not what Macros really are. In a programming language when you want to do X, you go about using programming features such as if-then-else statements and a for loop to achieve it, if things get complicated you use namespace features. In a Macro you tell the editor to watch what you are doing and repeat it N times. This significantly simplifies your task while you are doing non-trivial manipulation over several buffers/tabs. And in many way this is more easy to do with a tool that supports macros than with a regular programming language.