From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Slass Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: capturing commands Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:14:52 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034957220 20349 80.91.224.249 (18 Oct 2002 16:07:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:07:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 182ZeG-0005Gw-00 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:06:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 182ZeA-0005Es-00; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:06:46 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.228.27.239 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1034810092 12.228.27.239 (Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:14:52 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:14:52 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106133 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2671 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2671 Barry Margolin writes: >In article , >merik wrote: >>i would like to know if there was some way of capturing all commands >>executed while running emacs whether they be M-x yank, C-x C-s or just >>hitting the right arrow key > >'C-h l' will show the last 100 keystrokes. I don't think there's a >standard way to record everything, though. > C-h c C-h l => C-h l runs the command view-lossage ,----[ C-h f view-lossage RET ] | view-lossage is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `help'. | (view-lossage) | | Display last 100 input keystrokes. | | To record all your input on a file, use `open-dribble-file'. `---- ,----[ C-h f open-dribble-file RET ] | open-dribble-file is an interactive built-in function. | (open-dribble-file FILE) | | Start writing all keyboard characters to a dribble file called FILE. | If FILE is nil, close any open dribble file. `---- Why, exactly, do you want this? -- Mike Slass