Courtesy of gnu manual, we can permanently save a keyboard macro for future use: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Save-Keyboard-Macro.html The steps are as follows: perform macro (start with f3, then do your stuff and return to where you started, then stop recording with <f4>) name that macro kmacro-name-last-macro insert macro code into buffer insert-kbd-macro <RET> macro-name I want the ability to go into a let-form and, in the spirit of REPL debugging and development, bind the X VAL part of a (let [ .