From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making callable function of a macro Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:33:31 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1222331846.338559@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <19cc8ee3-7dbc-47ac-bee9-bf233b42a0eb@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222332151 2765 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2008 08:42:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:42:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 25 10:43:28 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KimRM-0006lv-Eo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:43:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60289 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KimQK-0007SZ-Au for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:42:08 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1222331859 12115 143.93.54.11 (25 Sep 2008 08:37:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:37:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-099-145.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162702 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58043 Archived-At: Joost Kremers wrote: > Decebal wrote: > [...] >> So I would like to change the macro to a >> function. > > i think the following info section explains how this can be done: > > (info "(emacs) Save Keyboard Macro") > > it even claims you don't need to know any elisp to do it... > > HTH > Yes, name the macro ( C-x C-k n ) and insert it in some file with insert-kbd-macro . After that it becomes a callable function/command. -> (NAME) This requires the emacs instance, in which this is later invoked, to have the same commands bound to the same keys as the instance where the macro was created. I am afraid writing a generic macro, which would transform a kbd-macro into a bindings-agnostic function is no trivial task. -ap