sugarkane - 11:36 pm on Jul 6, 2000 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the welcome ;) and congrats on a great forum.

On (X)emacs macros are pretty well limited to sequences of keyboard shortcuts, but as the entire editor is extensible using Lisp, you can define any function you care to write, and link it to a key binding or then put it in a macro.

More to the point, most of the stuff you want to do will already have been implemented by someone else and so there are plenty of useful scripts out there that can mould emacs to your way of thinking ;)

Check news://gnu.emacs.sources for a selection...

(X)Emacs is not so much a text editor as an operating system :)