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The Most Meta Macro - Keyboard Maestro

Addendum 2021-07-14:

I've simplified the macro displayed below thanks to an exchange with the folks at Stairways Software and Keyboard Maestro over Twitter.  Apparently, you can toggle a menu setting using the "|" key, that key that's accessible with Shift-\.

In other words, it can look like this:

I think I've got some serious housekeeping to do in my Keyboard Maestro macros now.

Original Post:

Ok, so I think I have created my most meta macro yet. It is a key command to start and stop editing a keyboard macro in Keyboard Maestro. I'm not sure what I win, but I'm going to have extra chocolate now...

The Most Meta Keyboard Maestro macro

For extra credit, I started and stopped editing this macro itself several times. 

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