[Arcana] A nice macro technique.

[Karl Fogel]

Roland McGrath <roland at frob.com> writes:
> Indeed, that is the way one has always behaved. ;-)

Do you use "one" to mean "advanced aliens from Planet Emacs"?

> That's my approach in the general case: I do the first iteration
> by hand while contemplating its method, then do half an iteration
> to pause at the natural "inspection" point before C-x ( and type
> the second half of the second iteration and the first half of the
> third before C-x ). 

I am but a grassling.