Re: function keys in macro

[Emanuel Berg]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> In fact, I just got a new idea writing this, remap to
> some unused shortcut (or even Unicode char, if those
> could be put in macros), and then have a macro "type"
> that... stay tuned!

Keyboard macros are *not* intercepted by the tty:

(fset 'Ml (kbd "M-l"))
(execute-kbd-macro (symbol-function 'Ml))

This will *not* take me to tty2 (if in tty1/Emacs), but
will instead run `downcase-word', i.e., normal Emacs
behaviour!

Amazing! That means this whole idea must be dropped!

-- 
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