See the discussion of the MacroCommand class on pages 234 and 235 of ''DesignPatterns''. 

--JohnVlissides

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I HaveThisPattern.  I have used it in a simple undo/redo framework for Gtk+ to allow a single user interface action to perform multiple commands that could be undone/redone as one.

Emacs does the same thing.

--NatPryce