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   Adam (runlevelrobot@emacs.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 15:49:07 JST Adam

   How is everyone doing? What is your favorite function in #emacs and why?

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     Omar Antolín (oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 15:48:50 JST Omar Antolín

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     • slomosapien

     @runlevelrobot @slomosapien I mainly use Emacs for writing prose (emails, papers, course notes, homework assignments, todo lists, committee reports, recommendation letters, etc.) and I still get a ton of mileage out of keyboard macros. You certainly don't need to be using emacs for programming to find keyboard macros useful!

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     Adam (runlevelrobot@emacs.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 15:48:51 JST Adam

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     • slomosapien

     @slomosapien well if only I used #emacs for programming lol

     Alfred M. Szmidt repeated this.
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     Adam (runlevelrobot@emacs.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 15:48:56 JST Adam

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     • slomosapien

     @slomosapien I haven’t heard of that one!

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     slomosapien (slomosapien@buzz.cicadas.surf)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 15:48:56 JST slomosapien

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     @runlevelrobot welp. You're in for a treat

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     slomosapien (slomosapien@buzz.cicadas.surf)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 15:49:06 JST slomosapien

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     @runlevelrobot

     kmacro-start-macro

     The most underappreciated #emacs superpower. I love using it to define big chunks of similarly named functions or classes in various prog languages.

     Can easily wow non-emacsers who wonder how you "wrote" so much code so quickly.