From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to convert a keyboard macro to a string? Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:38:34 +0200 Message-ID: <8660efszlh.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87a83r4t43.fsf@jane> <878tjb3vue.fsf@jane> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501101656 884 195.159.176.226 (26 Jul 2017 20:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:40:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 22:40:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daT6p-00081C-EU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daT6u-0001XM-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daT6T-0001X5-R8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daT6Q-0006Rl-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49891 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daT6Q-0006RD-Ho for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daT6E-00069o-Jj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:40:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:SkG329uhG4OaYfy/Xl2Pxriz1jM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113884 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > The most likely situation is that you always > want to use `key-description` because the > reason for wanting a string is to have > a human-readable representation of the > sequence of events. Seriously, how much money would you ask to write your computer memoirs starting with seeing your first computer ever? And you wouldn't have to bother with anything, I do all the LaTeX and groff and gnuplot and website companion and appendix timelines and glossary and GNU knows what... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573