Personally, I don't find I'm "fighting" with macros.  You can get an 
astounding amount done with macros without having to do the mental 
context switch to coding mode.  And if I'm already in coding mode, I 
find putting the real application I was working on (in Java or C or PHP 
or JavaScript or whatever) on short-term hold and switching context to 
writing Elisp code for editing the application code, leaves me 
struggling to remember what I was trying to accomplish with my changes 
to the application code when I finally finish writing the Elisp code and 
need to pop that context off my mental stack and return to thinking 
about the application code.

But other people's mental processes may well be different.  To each his 
own.  Or, as they say, YMMV.

    Mark


On 7/22/2011 4:37 PM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> from my feeling: finally much easier then fighting which recorded 
> keyboard-macros is writing it's own little functions.
>
> Running them under edebug then and a breakpoint set allows neatly control
>
> Keyboard macros are good for really limited and easy repeats.
>
> Andreas
>