From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to convert a keyboard macro to a string?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:40:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzibr2gft.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tjb3vue.fsf@jane> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:18:49 +0200")
> Thanks, that was _exactly_ what I needed! This means that what I want
> is to first use seq-into (wrapped in condition-case), and if that fails,
> key-description. Emacs did not disappoint! ;-)
I think that's the wrong approach: the kinds of strings returned
are different.
E.g for a vector like [?\C-a], seq-into will return a string with
a single char (the ASCII code 1), whereas key-description will return
the string "C-a".
The most likely situation is that you always want to use
`key-description` because the reason for wanting a string is to
have a human-readable representation of the sequence of events.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-26 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-26 6:20 Is there a way to convert a keyboard macro to a string? Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-26 6:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 6:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 7:20 ` Héctor Lahoz
2017-07-26 8:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 13:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-26 16:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 20:22 ` tomas
2017-07-26 20:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 20:51 ` John Mastro
2017-07-26 23:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-26 18:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-26 18:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-07-26 20:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-07-27 6:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-27 12:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-08 4:56 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-08-08 6:32 ` John Ankarström
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