Re: How to get keyboard macro that was just run?

[Okamsn <okamsn@protonmail.com>]

On 2023-06-18 17:05 UTC, Okamsn wrote:
> On 2023-06-18 15:53 UTC, Eduardo Ochs wrote:
>> Hi Okamsn,
>> try to run this with C-x C-e:
>>
>> (insert (format "\n\%S\n"
>>     `(setq last-kbd-macro (kbd ,(format-kbd-macro last-kbd-macro)))))
>>
>> it's roughly the trick that I use to save and edit keyboard macros,
>> but stripped out of all the cruft...
>>     Cheers,
>>       Eduardo Ochs
>>       http://anggtwu.net/#eev
> 
> Thank you for the response. I know that the variable `last-kbd-macro`
> contains the last keyboard macro that was defined, but I am interested
> in programmatically knowing the last keyboard macro that was run, just
> after it is run.
> 
> For example, `consult-kmacro` selects a keyboard macro from
> `kmacro-ring`, converts that macro to a function, and then runs
> function. In this way, it does not change the value of `last-kbd-macro`,
> as far as I'm aware.
> 
> 

I realize now that the problem is more complicated than I first thought, 
because Meow also uses keyboard macros in other ways, so just advising 
`execute-kbd-macro` would affect things indiscriminately.