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Re: `special' keys in keyboard macros
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Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Re: `special' keys in keyboard macros |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:36:35 +0000 (UTC) |
Roland Winkler <address@hidden> wrote
I think it would be neat to have some better support for
converting "dirty", quickly hacked keyboard macros into "clean"
elisp commands.
A decade or more ago, David Gillespie included a function that
converted key strokes to Emacs Lisp in his Emacs Calc mode. Instead
of running `kmacro-start-macro/ kmacro-start-macro' and end up with a
keyboard macro, you would run this function the same way (possibly
bound to the same keys) and end up with an Emacs Lisp defun.
Unfortunately, I cannot find the feature any more. It is not in any
recent version of Calc, nor any other place I have looked. Nor can I
remember what it is called, except that I think it had `edit' in its
name.
Someone with more access to old Emacs Lisp libraries might find it.
Or maybe it is hidden in the current Emacs Calc code and I just have
not seen it.
As with the RMIME libraries I mentioned earlier, this code is not
likely to come with proper papers (although it was, if I remember
rightly, part of Calc mode -- so maybe it does have papers). In any
case, the defuns produced were not the best; and would need
enhancement to emulate the current `kmacro-start-macro/
kmacro-start-macro' tools.
But you should be able to look at the code and run the function as it
is, and see what it does -- it could be a help.
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