From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there a plan to record kbd macro as elisp code? Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:46:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y7doxmcw.fsf@jurta.org> <87ejfcwxh0.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193816979 5019 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2007 07:49:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yezonghui@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 08:49:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1In8Kb-00058j-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:49:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1In8KR-000224-HM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Hz-00012g-HT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Hx-00011b-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:46:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Hx-00011V-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1In8Hw-0002dy-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:46:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1In8Hw-0000KW-8n; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:46:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ejfcwxh0.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:14:11 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82197 > 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. We need to give it a try. If we avoid being perfectionist, it may be easy to give good results in simple usual cases.