A kind reader suggested I try the view-lossage command to display a
list of recent keystrokes. This would be helpful for those times when
I press a key accidentally and don't know what I did (as described in
"zap-to-char M-z").
The output resembles what you'd get from edit-kbd-macro (assuming
that a keyboard macro had been defined). This provides an alternate
way to define a keyboard macro -- just select the desired portion of
the output and invoke read-kbd-macro. At this point you can "play
back" those keystrokes with C-x e.
After I understood view-lossage, I skimmed through the
list of commands that start with view- (by doing M-x view- TAB). The commands view-buffer, view-file(and variants that view in another buffer, window, frame)
provide a safe (read-only) way to examine the contents of a buffer
or file.
Entering M-x view-file-other-frame .emacs allows me to
display my init file in a new Emacs frame and close it (by pressing
"q") when I'm done with it. And then I don't have to worry about
changing it inadvertently.
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