Re: Is there a way to convert a keyboard macro to a string?

[Stefan Monnier]

> execute-kbd-macro accepts a string as MACRO.  However, if I record
> a macro using F3 ... F4 and look at last-kbd-macro, it is a vector and
> not a string.  How do I convert it to a string representing the same key
> sequence?

Depending on the purpose, you can do:

    (seq-into VEC 'string)
or
    (key-description VEC)

The first will fail if your key sequence includes non-character events,
or events with non-trivial modifiers.  The second will give you a string
that's human readable but needs to be passed through `kbd` before it can
be used as a "key sequence" (e.g. for define-key).


        Stefan