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Is there any way to save a keyboard macro in bash?

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Mar 15, 20263703 views
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I would like to permanently save a keyboard macro that I've recorded using C-x ( and C-x ). Is there an easy way to "see the source" for my newly recorded macro so that I can bind it to a keyboard shortcut in ~/.inputrc? I thought would do it, but it doesn't seem to...

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Turns out it's really not possible, that is, it wasn't possible until tonight! Since I was curious to dig into the bash source code anyways I went ahead and added this feature :). We'll see if the bash maintainers apply my patch.

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