How to migrate a keyboard macro to a function?

Hi, I've recorded a simple macro and I don't want to use it as a named macro. I prefer to use it as a function. Is there a way to use the output of `last-kbd-macro` and create a function I can call interactively? I was looking for this on the web and trying to find eval macro functions in Emacs but so far, I wasn't lucky. Maybe there is no possibility and everybody is preferring named macros?

M-x name-last-kbd-macro M-x insert-kbd-macro

OK, so a named macro then. This results in a `(fset 'myname ...)`. Does this come with any difference to a function except that there are no parameters?

I don't think it's any different to a function.

Well, then I'll start using it as a named macro. Thanks for the confirmation!

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In theory: no idea. In practice: I've been using such kmacro-generated functions as building blocks of larger automation commands with huge success. Basically some buffer navigation logic, kmacro1, some more logic, maybe a loop, then kmacro2, etc. So I'd say you're relatively safe using them this way.

As u/whudwl said, naming keyboard macros is fine. But if you really want to turn a keyboard macro into Emacs Lisp code, there is a package for that: [elmacro](https://github.com/Silex/elmacro).

Oh, this one looks golden. Need to try that.

That `fset` binds your keyboard macro to the "function cell" (or "function property") of symbol `myname`, so in some sense a named macro *is* a function. What we normally think of as a function -- that is, one defined by `defun` -- binds a lambda list to that cell instead, so there is a difference to be found if you dig, it just never shows up in normal usage.