Emacs keystroke representation confusion

Question

I usually define new keybindings in emacs using

\"C-x (\" --> (command kmacro-start-macro)
\"C-x )\" --> (kmacro-end-macro)
(name-last-kbd-macro)
(insert-kbd-macro)
         


        

Answer 1

I made a package that allows pretty much exactly this at https://github.com/Silex/elmacro

It has some quirks but it works pretty well... for example, the following macro:

F3 C-e M-b M-u C-a C-n F4

Generates the following elisp:

(defun upcase-last-word ()
  "Change me!"
  (interactive)
  (move-end-of-line 1)
  (backward-word 1)
  (upcase-word 1)
  (move-beginning-of-line 1)
  (next-line 1 1))