GNU bug report logs - #38775
(kbd "C-x ( ... C-x )") gulps "C-x (" and "C-x )"

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Message #20 received at 38775 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Kritixi Lithos <kritixilithos <at> gmail.com>
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, 38775 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: bug#38775: (kbd "C-x ( ... C-x )") gulps "C-x (" and "C-x )"
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 04:24:37 +0200

Kritixi Lithos <kritixilithos <at> gmail.com> writes:

> So how would you solve the original problem of calling emacs
> keystrokes with potential keyboard macros inside them?
> `command-execute` appears to use `execute-kbd-macro` according to the
> source, so trying `command-execute` on each keystroke does not work as
> intended with `C-x ( ... C-x )` among the commands.

Good question.  More generally, given the textual representations of any
number of Emacs keystrokes, do we have a way to get those replayed
programmatically?  I thought we had (on top of `call-last-kbd-macro' or
edmacro), but I can't really find anything now?

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