From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sam Nirvana Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: macro atoms formatting Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1484669427 12817 195.159.176.226 (17 Jan 2017 16:10:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:10:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 17 17:10:24 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cTWL1-0002zT-A4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:10:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTWL6-0000Sg-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:10:28 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xUPrTrFqrZ/h12/roMYvIg.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219054 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112122 Archived-At: When I save a macro with M-x insert-kbd-macro sometimes Emacs prints a well-formatted Lisp function: (fset 'amacro (lambda (&optional arg) "Keyboard macro" (interactive "p") (kmacro-exec-ring-item (quote ("
  • and other keystrokes..." 0 "%d")) arg))) sometimes the code is formatted in a quite esoteric form: (fset 'amacro [?\M-! ? ?x ?m ... and many other ?-sequences... ?\C- m]) apparently without a reason. How can I oblige Emacs to format the macro in the first way?