From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there a plan to record kbd macro as elisp code? Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y7doxmcw.fsf@jurta.org> <87d4v09f6h.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193616766 7200 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2007 00:12:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yezonghui@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 29 01:12:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ImIFI-0005Gh-83 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:12:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ImIF9-0001CO-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:12:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ImIE9-0000jv-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ImIE7-0000jK-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ImIE7-0000jB-HU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ImIE7-0007kn-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ImIE6-00078x-S9; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d4v09f6h.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:34:46 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82006 Archived-At: I think the goal is not to produce Lisp code exactly equivalent to the keyboard macro, but a useful basis for writing a new Lisp function. That is right. Thus, we don't want all the effects of all pre-command-hooks and post-command-hooks to be included. We want that only for cases like Delete Selection mode where the user will think of them as part of the meaning of the command.