### 4.6 Macros Commands

Macros are lists of commands. Any series of operations that has to be performed frequently is a good candidate for being a macro.

Macros can be written manually: they are just ASCII files, each command occupying a line (lines starting with ‘`#`’ are considered comments; lines starting with other nonalphabetical characters are presently ignored). But the real power of macros is that they be recorded during the normal usage of `ne`. When the recording terminates, the operations that have been recorded can be saved for later use. Note that each document has a current macro (the last macro that has been opened or recorded).