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From: dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Readable keyboard macros ?
Message-ID: <207@ark1.nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 27 Oct 89 21:10:09 GMT
References: <8910271557.AA28037@mail-gw.ncsl.nist.gov>
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Reply-To: Dave Sill <dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
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In article <8910271557.AA28037@mail-gw.ncsl.nist.gov>,
konczal@MAIL-GW.NCSL.NIST.GOV (Joe Konczal) writes:
> >   I want to define a keyboard macro and I want to save it or edit it later.
> >   Ok, I use `start-kbd-macro' and `end-kbd-macro'. Then I call
> >   `insert-kbd-macro' and I only get the sequences of my keyboard.
> 
> Use `name-last-kbd-macro' to give the macro a name, then use
> `insert-kbd-macro' to insert the "lisp code" into the current buffer.

I think he wants to get the *real* lisp code, not the key sequence
lisp.  Try:

generate (2.0)	  87-09-02
     Ciaran A Byrne, <ciaran@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk>
     tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/as-is/generate.el.Z
     Macro-to-elisp converter.

Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)