Roadmap: Better kmacro support

[DogLooksGood]

The Problem

If you don't introduce multiple-cursors, iedit, etc, basically you have two Emacs built-in ways to edit multiple places at the same time: query-replace and kmacro. Kmacro is a little hard for beginners but it can be considered as a 100% use cases covered solution and it's built-in. Meow will embrace kmacro since Meow is designed to have tight integration with vanilla Emacs.

Meow provides two commands work with kmacro: meow-kmacro-lines and meow-kmacro-matches. They respect the important design principle:

A kmacro could be defined at any position, and can apply to here and there. That means we have to leave kmacro what it is, there's no "kmacro+", no addition states, no magic Do-What-I-Mean commands.

These two commands simplify how kmacro is called, instead of you define a kmacro call it N times, you call kmacro for lines in a region or matches with regexp. However, the functionality of these two commands are pretty limited.

• You can't call kmacro at a fixed column number in a range
• You can't call kmacro for every 3 lines in a range
• The state(have a selection or not) when you start recording kmacro affect how it works.
• meow-kmacro-matches need to work with narrow-to-region, if you want to specify a range
• more...

The Ideas

TBD

The Solution

TBD

[DogLooksGood]

This feature is implemented as BMACRO state.