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Re: XWEM kbd macro help please

From: Zajcev Evgeny <zevlg@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XWEM kbd macro help please
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:25:23 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, berkeley-unix)
Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> * Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>   > But I want to save this very important macro across XWEM sessions.
>   > And this is where I get lost.  What are the XWEM equivalents of:
>
>   >         `name-last-kbd-macro'
>   >         `assign-last-kbd-macro-to-key'
>   >         `insert-kbd-macro'
>
> To followup to myself, this solves my immediate problems...
>
> (define-xwem-command xwem-assign-last-kbd-macro-to-key (key)
>   "Assign to a key sequence the last keyboard macro defined.
> Argument KEY is anything acceptable to `define-key'.."
>   (xwem-interactive
>    (list (read-key-sequence "Key sequence for last kbd macro: ")))
>   (or xwem-keymacro-last-kbd-macro
>       (error "No keyboard macro defined"))
>   (define-key xwem-user-macros-map key xwem-keymacro-last-kbd-macro))
>
> And then xwem-desktop-(save|load) handles the rest.

Yes, that is exactly how it should be done.  But it is better to use
"K" interactive form, like this:

    (define-xwem-command xwem-assign-last-kbd-macro-to-key (key)
       "documentation"
       (xwem-interactive "KKey sequence for last kbd macro: ")
       ...)

>
> This looks OK for simplistic keyboard macros, but I'd imagine it would
> get quite untidy for anything complex.
>
> I'm working on `xwem-name-last-kbd-macro' and
> `xwem-insert-kbd-macro'. :-)

Hehe, thats great!

PS: to assign keyboard macro to key at definition time use prefix arg
(H-u) before H-x (, like this `H-u H-x ( m a c r o H-x )' - after `H-x
)' it will propose you to select a key in xwem-user-macros-map to bind
to.

-- 
lg

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