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Subject: |
Better format for view-lossage |
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Date: |
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:17:58 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
It would much more useful in the output buffer of ‘C-h l’ (view-lossage)
to use the same format as is used by ‘edit-last-kbd-macro’.
Then it will possible to just copy the lines from the buffer generated
by ‘view-lossage’, yank them to the buffer “*Edit Macro*” created by
‘edit-last-kbd-macro’, and save the macro by ‘C-c C-c’.
This is useful for such cases when the user forgets to start macro recording,
or wants to convert recent keystrokes to the macro without re-typing them,
or pick only some of recent keystrokes and compose a new macro
in different order.
This patch is for master:
diff --git a/lisp/help.el b/lisp/help.el
index 4899bc4..9575f5b 100644
--- a/lisp/help.el
+++ b/lisp/help.el
@@ -465,8 +465,8 @@ view-lossage
(princ (mapconcat (lambda (key)
(cond
((and (consp key) (null (car key)))
- (format "[%s]\n" (if (symbolp (cdr key)) (cdr key)
- "anonymous-command")))
+ (format ";; %s\n" (if (symbolp (cdr key)) (cdr key)
+ "anonymous-command")))
((or (integerp key) (symbolp key) (listp key))
(single-key-description key))
(t
@@ -475,11 +475,11 @@ view-lossage
" "))
(with-current-buffer standard-output
(goto-char (point-min))
- (while (not (eobp))
- (move-to-column 50)
- (unless (eolp)
- (fill-region (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)))
- (forward-line 1))
+ (let ((comment-start ";; ")
+ (comment-column 24))
+ (while (not (eobp))
+ (comment-indent)
+ (forward-line 1)))
;; jidanni wants to see the last keystrokes immediately.
(set-marker help-window-point-marker (point)))))
PS: I'm not sure whether this feature should be documented somewhere.
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