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Anybody maintaining generate.el?
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Tom Breton |
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Anybody maintaining generate.el? |
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10 Dec 2005 21:09:56 -0500 |
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There used to be an elisp package called generate.el (sometimes
macro-generate.el). Originally written by Ciaran A Byrne, then
improved by Christoph Conrad. What it did was much like kbd-macro,
except it recorded commands, not keystrokes, and wrote it as an elisp
function.
This has some advantages: The result is a lot more readable and
maintainable. The result can be parameterized and so forth. And if
you did something context-dependent, like M-x'ed a command from
command history or yanked from the kill ring, the context dependency
can easily be removed and in some cases never even shows up.
But it was also hit-or-miss, especially in later emacsen. Prefix
argument and isearch no longer work (I assume they worked in some
early emacs). Replaying the macro was clumsy; it never supported
anything like \C-xe.
Googling the web and Usenet revealed nothing later than version 2.0.
Is there a later version than 2.0? If not, is there any interest in
seeing one?
--
Tom Breton, the calm-eyed visionary
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