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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: yzhh <yezonghui@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a plan to record kbd macro as elisp code?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:14:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejfcwxh0.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ImQoV-0000SL-Iu@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:21:39 -0400")

>     is a kbd macro I recorded for M-x replace-string is -> IS. The
>     complication is with the TAB completion - it would require total
>     knowledge about TAB completion to reconstruct the command name -
>     what edit-kbd-macro doesn't do.
>
> That is a real issue, which I had not thought about before.  This is a
> case which is easier to handle if you record the actual arguments.
>
> On the other hand, just recording the actual value of the argument
> is also sometimes wrong.  Suppose you mark text in a buffer and
> copy it into the minibuffer as part of the macro.  The Lisp program
> ought to copy the text too.

Recording the actual arguments is a useful and clean solution, but
trying to emulate the logic of minibuffer processing will produce
ugly and complicated Lisp code.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-30 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-27  9:28 Is there a plan to record kbd macro as elisp code? yzhh
2007-10-27 15:48 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-27 17:30   ` yzhh
2007-10-27 18:01     ` Drew Adams
2007-10-28 13:50       ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-27 20:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-27 21:22       ` Kim F. Storm
2007-10-28 13:50         ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 22:00           ` Kim F. Storm
2007-10-29  5:20             ` yzhh
2007-10-29  9:22             ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-29  9:22             ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-27 21:45       ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-28  1:14         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-28  1:34           ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-29  0:11             ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28  6:49         ` yzhh
2007-10-28  7:13           ` yzhh
2007-10-28 10:54           ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-28 13:50         ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 15:09           ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-29  9:21             ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 16:13           ` yzhh
2007-10-28 16:48             ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-29  9:21             ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-30 14:14               ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2007-10-31  7:46                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-27 19:26   ` Jay Belanger
2007-10-27 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-27 17:13   ` yzhh
2007-10-27 17:40     ` Drew Adams
2007-10-27 18:05       ` yzhh
2007-10-27 19:22       ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-10-27 20:11         ` Drew Adams
2007-10-28 13:50   ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 16:45     ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-29  6:41 ` Klaus Zeitler

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