Convert an existing keyboard macro to elisp code?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Hi List, 

I cite from the http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyboardMacrosTricks
page, where somebody posted exactly the same question that came to my
mind today: 

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| Is there a way to convert an existing keyboard macro to elisp code?
|
| You can do this with M-x insert-kbd-macro but the result is
| probably not to your liking. If I do:
| 
|  C-x (
|  C-n
|  foo
|  C-x )
|  M-x name-last-kbd-macro RET newline-and-foo
|  M-x insert-kbd-macro RET newline-and-foo RET
| 
| emacs will insert the following into the buffer:
| 
|  (fset 'newline-and-foo
|    "\C-nfoo")
| 
| I would very much like to be able to insert something like this:
| 
|   (defun newline-and-foo ()
|     (interactive)
|     (next-line)
|     (insert "foo"))
| 
| But it appears emacs does not have this feature.
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Unfortunately, the answer was more a less a 'NO'(or 'YOU HAVE TO WRITE
IT YOURSELF').

Since Emacs is a pretty dynamic project, I thought I give it another try
on the mailing list - maybe this feature request has been implemented in
the meantime by somebody?

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten