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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Keyboard macros Turing-equivalent (was Re: Copy From Above?)
Message-ID: <9275@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 89 22:17:57 GMT
References: <36460@think.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <36460@think.UUCP>, by barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin):
> I don't think GNU Emacs keyboard macros are Turing-equivalent, but I
> think Gosling Emacs may have been.  The major missing feature in most
> Emacs keyboard macros is a decent conditional. [...]
> (I don't count using m-esc (eval-expression), since the point
> is to NOT resort to Lisp [...]

Ah, but you can resort to lisp exactly once: after you decide exactly 
what form the "decent conditional" will take.  Then you bind it
to a key and you're on your way.

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