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Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> You can invoke such a command with M-x stdstr RET and if it's too much
> to type, you can bind the command to some key sequence.

One could also use an abbrev. Not the normal variant, but the one that
can execute a Lisp expression (which in this case would be the nice
command Pascal wrote).