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A "keyboard macro" is a command defined by an Emacs user which represents a sequence of keys. Calling a keyboard macro is equivalent to typing that key sequence.

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How to save a keyboard macro as a Lisp function?

Very frequently I would need to perform the set of steps requiring multiple key strokes. For the same session those steps can be recorded in a keyboard macro. An example is saving a frequently executed search/replace operation as a keyboard macro.…
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How to handle next-line in keyboard macro?

I created a keyboard macro to join lines in a buffer using: F3 C-n M-x join-line RET F4. It works fine, except when lines get too long and start to wrap – which makes this macro dependent on the width of the frame. next-line doesn’t seem to go to…
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How can I run a keyboard macro in selected buffers from Ibuffer or selected files from dired?

If I have to do some variable name refactoring, I use ag and multiple-cursors. But when I have to do some code block removal/addition/moving, I use keyboard macros. But I need to switch to each buffer and initiate that macro run manually. Is there a…
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How to resume an INCOMPLETE keyboard macro recording?

Classic use-case: You start recording a macro: C-x ( You do some stuff, let's say hello. You run a command that throws an error, let's say C-g (e.g. you mistakenly run C-s and you have to cancel that with C-g, now your work is lost). Now your…
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What might be unused keys on Emacs that generally can be used to bind keyboard macros?

I read that the usual way to bind key to keyboard macros are C-x C-k 0 to 9 and A to Z. So for example, after we define a keyboard macro, we can type C-x C-k b and Emacs will ask for a key to bind. And the reserved keys for this purpose are C-x C-k…
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Translating strings to keypresses

Given a string in elisp, I'd like to simulate emacs receiving whatever keypresses are necessary to re-create that string. So given the string "Hello" emacs would act exactly the same as if I had pressed Shift+H,e,l,l,o. Note that this is not always…
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Sleep in an kbd macro

I was completing the python koans in emacs, and I was using a kdb macro to test my changes in a shell buffer and jump back into the python code. I wanted to take the line number of the next error from the shell buffer so that I could leap to it…
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query-replace in keyboard macro

Let me define a keyboard-macro: I enter C-x (, then go to beginning with M-<, then type M-% to query-replace some occurrences of foo by bar. Out of 3 occurrences found, I replace only the last 2, then save with C-x C-s and finish the kbd-macro with…
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Is possible to execute a key binding in a function?

Say, the C-M-j is bound to c-indent-new-comment-line for c-mode (and c++-mode) and indent-new-comment-line for other modes, but I want to define a function that will execute C-M-j to c-indent-new-comment-line in c-mode (and c++-mode) and…
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Editing a stored keyboard macro and storing the edited version

In my ~/.emacs, there are several keyboard macros stored. They appear as (fset 'dhteu-macro-name ... entries. BTW, dhteu is just a random alphabet combination prefixed to avoid collision with any existing commands. I can C-x C-k e M-x supply a macro…
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Key bound to string does not handle some chars in string correctly

(I ask this question after reading this one.) The form (global-set-key (kbd "M-e") "e") is, as far as I can tell, equivalent to (global-set-key (kbd "M-e") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "e"))) However, after evaluating (global-set-key (kbd…
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Function to count how many times a keyboard macro is invoked?

I am quite bad at counting and remember how many times I have invoked a special command, so I wonder is there any way to count and show in the minibuffer how many time a keyboard macro was invoked? Say that I want to use the macro to navigate the…
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Define a keyboard macro to indefinitely execute another keyboard macro and then do something else

I've defined one keyboard macro, bound to keystroke 1, say, and I want to define a second keyboard macro that executes the first one indefinitely and then returns to the beginning of the buffer. I assume that the first one always terminates if…
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Saving and restoring highlighting patterns

I have some log files that I spend a lot of time reading, and I find myself doing the same series of commands to get useful highlighting each time I open a new log. Typically some combination of M-x highlight-phrase and M-x…
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Keybinding for buffer word count

The following in my .emacs file does not produced the desired result of showing me the word count for the current buffer (it "does nothing"): (global-set-key (kbd "") (kbd "C-u M-=")) Is this because M-= is an interactive function? Would I need…
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