From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Convert an existing keyboard macro to elisp code?
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 09:33:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsNXT=86=O+Q5CYi-+WYjvqkRYYtVE1dZOq2hNnrx3P02uW1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mx2cxb7x.fsf@googlemail.com>
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, the answer was more a less a 'NO'(or 'YOU HAVE TO WRITE
> IT YOURSELF').
>
> Since Emacs is a pretty dynamic project, I thought I give it another try
> on the mailing list - maybe this feature request has been implemented in
> the meantime by somebody?
If it were just a matter of reading the key sequence and mapping it to
functions it wouldn't be too bad, but the more I think about this, the
more it seems like a rat hole. How would you translate
(fset 'my-macro
[?\M-x ?m ?a ?g tab ?i ?t tab ?s ?t tab ?t tab return ?m ?a tab return])
into
(defun my-macro ()
(interactive)
(magit-status "c:/Users/PJ/Documents/magit/"))
?
You would need to know what auto-completion happened when the user
pressed tab, and then you would need to know how the function
translated its user input into interactive arguments. I don't think
there's a way to do it without running the macro and (somehow)
watching what happens. And that could have unpleasant side effects.
And this particular example wouldn't even be portable, since when I
type "M-x magit-status RET magit RET", Magit actually does some magic
to translate that into a full path. So on my other machine, the
proper definition of that macro would be
(defun my-macro ()
(interactive)
(magit-status "/home/pj/source-code/magit"))
And that doesn't even take into account different keymaps.
-PJ
Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from
magic is insufficiently advanced.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-03 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-03 15:10 Convert an existing keyboard macro to elisp code? Thorsten Jolitz
2012-08-03 16:33 ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
2012-08-03 17:00 ` Yuri Khan
2012-08-03 18:16 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-08-04 6:13 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.6259.1344011630.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-04 9:48 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2012-08-04 16:39 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-08-04 16:51 ` Suvayu Ali
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