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On Dec 16, 12:22 pm, Mike Mattie <codermat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That did confuse me for a while. I decided it was time to make it at least consistent in my
> configuration. After asking for some advice I settled on (kbd). This function below takes
> the pain out of keybindings.
>
> I use it as follows:
>
> M-x insert-key-notation
>
> it then prompts for the key sequence, and generates the code.
>
> (defun insert-key-notation ()
>   "inject a complete \(kbd \"sequence\"\) with key notation for a key sequence given by prompt"
>   (interactive)
>   (insert "(kbd \"")
>   (insert (format-kbd-macro (read-key-sequence "Key? " nil t)))
>   (insert "\")")
>   )

Neat! Charming!!
But why is kbd not in the elisp manual?