Re: Opening files from a command

[bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)]

Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

>    C-x (                          ;; Start macro
>      C-SPC C-e M-w C-a C-n        ;; Put line on kill-ring
>      C-x 4 f C-y <return>         ;; Open that file in a different window
>      C-x o                        ;; Go back to the shell buffer
>    C-x )                          ;; End macro
>
> Do you know an emacs-mode to automatically do the transcription
> between an emacs macro like the one on the left to a more
> textified version like the one on the right side ? Here the macro
> is pretty basic but with more complex ones, it could help to have
> such description on demand.

Like

    (format-kbd-macro
     (kbd
      "C-x (
         C-SPC C-e M-w C-a C-n
         C-x 4 f C-y <return>
         C-x o
       C-x )")
     t)

    =>

    "C-SPC                  ;; set-mark-command
    C-e                     ;; move-end-of-line
    M-w                     ;; kill-ring-save
    C-a                     ;; move-beginning-of-line
    C-n                     ;; next-line
    C-x 4 f                 ;; find-file-other-window
    C-y                     ;; yank
    RET                     ;; newline
    C-x o                   ;; other-window"

Cf. `edit-kbd-macro'.