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From: gallaher@topaz.ARPA (Mike Gallaher)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Mlisp function gone astray.
Message-ID: <1004@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 23:31:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 23:31:38 1985
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The problem is that the strings that are being pushed back need a
terminator, just as when you are really typing them in.  The
string that Emacs sees in the example given is
	\ex<command>\exuse-global-map &current-keymap

The second \e is taken to be the terminator for the command,
and the rest is just seen as text to be inserted.
The corrected code fragment is

	    (push-back-string "use-global-map &current-keymap\e")
	    (push-back-string "\e\ex")
	    (push-back-string command)
	    (push-back-string "\ex")

You can also do fun things like this by using the fact that keymaps
can be executed as if they were functions -- after all, a keymap is
considered a macro; that's why keymaps appear in the list generated
by ESC-x?   Anything that can be bound to a key can be executed.

Mike Gallaher