---
title: The Most Meta Macro - Keyboard Maestro
description: Do I win a prize?
---

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# [The Most Meta Macro - Keyboard Maestro](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/the-most-meta-macro)

 Written by [Kourosh](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/author/kourosh) | Jul 12, 2021 3:00:00 PM

**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. 

[View full post](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/the-most-meta-macro)

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