From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: yzhh <yezonghui@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a plan to record kbd macro as elisp code?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:14:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejfcwxh0.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ImQoV-0000SL-Iu@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:21:39 -0400")
> is a kbd macro I recorded for M-x replace-string is -> IS. The
> complication is with the TAB completion - it would require total
> knowledge about TAB completion to reconstruct the command name -
> what edit-kbd-macro doesn't do.
>
> That is a real issue, which I had not thought about before. This is a
> case which is easier to handle if you record the actual arguments.
>
> On the other hand, just recording the actual value of the argument
> is also sometimes wrong. Suppose you mark text in a buffer and
> copy it into the minibuffer as part of the macro. The Lisp program
> ought to copy the text too.
Recording the actual arguments is a useful and clean solution, but
trying to emulate the logic of minibuffer processing will produce
ugly and complicated Lisp code.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-27 9:28 Is there a plan to record kbd macro as elisp code? yzhh
2007-10-27 15:48 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-27 17:30 ` yzhh
2007-10-27 18:01 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-28 13:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-27 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-27 21:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-10-28 13:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 22:00 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-10-29 5:20 ` yzhh
2007-10-29 9:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-29 9:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-27 21:45 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-28 1:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-28 1:34 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-29 0:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 6:49 ` yzhh
2007-10-28 7:13 ` yzhh
2007-10-28 10:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-28 13:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 15:09 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-29 9:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 16:13 ` yzhh
2007-10-28 16:48 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-29 9:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-30 14:14 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2007-10-31 7:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-27 19:26 ` Jay Belanger
2007-10-27 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-27 17:13 ` yzhh
2007-10-27 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-27 18:05 ` yzhh
2007-10-27 19:22 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-27 20:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-28 13:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 16:45 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-29 6:41 ` Klaus Zeitler
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