Re: Is there a plan to record kbd macro as elisp code?

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Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> IIRC, there used to be such a feature, bound to `C-x [' and `C-x ]' I think.
> It generated Elisp for the defined macro. Worked pretty well - gave you at
> least a skeleton you could complete to make a proper command definition.
> 
> Unless it was in Epoch or Gosling Emacs. It's been a while...
> 
> I think the command name was `gen-' something, but I can't find anything
> about this in Google - perhaps I'm not a good googler.
> 
> The Emacs Lisp List has this entry, but the link appears to be dead:
> macro-generate.el --- [Turn a keyboard macro into lisp code.] Contact:
> [unknown]. Perhaps that was what I was thinking of. This is the (dead?) URL:
> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3rydma/Hack/emacs/Archive/macro-generate.el.
> 
> And this page (http://www.bookshelf.jp/soft/meadow_46.html#SEC669) mentions
> in connection with macro-generate.el, commands `gen-start-generating',
> `gen-stop-generating', and `gen-expand-macro'. I think this was what I used
> to use. Perhaps you can find it somewhere else on the Web - I couldn't.
> 

I'm sorry I didn't mention the path I've gone through. Actually I've found 
a version of generate.el, which is made in 1989. It includes those functions 
with similar names you cited (without 'gen-' prefix). And I runs without an
error in emacs22. But it leaves out too much commands in the generated code.
I looked into generated.el's implementation, and found it actually reads 
command-history to get the code. And command-history itself is leaving out
a lot commands.

That's why I made those modifications, trying to get a complete command
history. And then the story you've read.

Please also read my reply to Robert.