From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeff Kowalczyk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Function to insert a key sequence Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <7b501d5c0912241738n2d30cadcgefd37b4391fdb1e0@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261867960 2958 80.91.229.12 (26 Dec 2009 22:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:52:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 23:52:33 2009 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 1NOfUt-0002TG-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:52:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NOfUu-0000d9-6P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:52:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NOfUq-0000bo-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:52:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NOfUl-0000WP-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37465 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NOfUl-0000WD-Br for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:52:23 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32816) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NOeuQ-0000Ym-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:14:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NOeuG-00046w-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:14:40 +0100 Original-Received: from 24-216-241-93.dhcp.mdfd.or.charter.com ([24.216.241.93]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:14:40 +0100 Original-Received: from jtk by 24-216-241-93.dhcp.mdfd.or.charter.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:14:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.216.241.93 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2b5) Gecko/20091216 Gentoo Firefox/3.6b5) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:118827 Archived-At: Deniz Dogan gmail.com> writes: > Attached is a little function for inserting a key sequence entered by > the user into the current buffer. I don't know if it fits into any > existing Emacs library, but I find it quite useful, so I thought I'd > just throw it out there. Deniz, Thanks, this function is interesting. It could be useful in tools like ScreencastMode [1]. Is this version intended for use with Emacs 23? I had to change read-key to read-key-sequence to get the prompt, but the function does not exit on C-g: (defun insert-key-sequence () "Reads a sequence of keys until C-g is hit, and inserts the prettified key sequence with C-g excluded." (interactive) (let ((result "") key) (while (progn (setq key (read-key-sequence "Enter the key sequence: ")) (unless (eq 7 key) (setq result (concat result (key-description (list key)) " "))) (not (eq 7 key)))) (when (not (string= result "")) (insert result) (backward-delete-char 1)))) Thanks, Jeff [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ScreencastMode