From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Has anybody got a tool for manipulating dribble files?
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:51:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty7d4khg.fsf@maru.md5i.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpqi1a7aq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:43:54 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> This function reads a dribble file and creates a keyboard macro from
>> it. It is heuristic in nature. You cannot tell the difference between
>
> We should change the code in record_char so as to write an unambiguous
> format. E.g. write the space key as " SPC" and add a space in front of
> the "<...>" symbols.
I agree completely. It wouldn't even be hard to do. Unfortunately, I
cannot seem to get a blanket disclaimer from my employer (I can only get
disclaimers on a case-by-case basis), so I will have to leave it to
somebody else.
> Tho a (more verbose) alternative is to use the same format as used
> within the [...] vector of a keyboard macro, so you can just add "[" at
> the front and "]" at the back and parse it with `read'.
That would certainly work. Though I wonder if all the <foo> keys are
all necessarily portable.
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-12 19:01 Has anybody got a tool for manipulating dribble files? Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-13 2:21 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-10-13 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 3:51 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
2011-10-13 21:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-13 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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