return key in keyboard macros

return key in keyboard macros

[Roland Winkler]

I am having some problems with the return key when I am defining and
storing keyboard macros.

When emacs runs in its own X window, the return key is translated
into `[return]'. For example,

;; emacs in its own X window
(fset 'foo
   [return])

On the other hand "emacs -nw" translates the return
key into "\C-m". For example

;; "emacs -nw"
(fset 'bar
   "\C-m")

The problem is: "emacs -nw" cannot make use of the keyboard macro
foo because here [return] is not bound to anything. (There is no
such compatibility problem with the keyboard macro bar.)

Can I enforce emacs to generate keyboard macros that will work both
with "emacs -nw" and with emacs in its own X window?

Thanks a lot,

Roland


PS  I am using GNU emacs 21.2.1

Re: return key in keyboard macros

[Stefan Monnier]

> I am having some problems with the return key when I am defining and
> storing keyboard macros.

Hmm...indeed Emacs uses untranslated events when saving such kbd-macros,
so you get [return] rather than ?\C-m under X and you get
some strange escape sequence rather than [down] when using
cursor keys in a text terminal.

You might want to report this as a bug, although it's probably going to be
difficult to fix (although an "easy" fix would be to manually pass the
macro through function-key-map and key-translation-map, but doing it
right is difficult).


        Stefan

Re: return key in keyboard macros

[Joakim Hove]

Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> I am having some problems with the return key when I am defining and
> storing keyboard macros.

When your macros are worthy of reuse between sessions I would
recommend writing proper lisp functions instead.

Regards

Joakim

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