Emacs defines a fair variety of objects that can be bound to keys, with e.g. global-set-key. (The canonical list can be found here).
I would like to simulate the invocation of a keymap entry. For example, I would expect:
What is the simplest way to do this?
For a command or a symbol whose symbol-function is a command (which includes the case where it is a keyboard macro), use command-execute.
That's about all there is. The other possibilities for key bindings are to keymaps, to help with looking up key sequences to get the associated commands.
Your question is not too clear about what you expect as input. Are you expecting the function you seek to do key-sequence lookup, so you will pass it menu items and such? If not, it all boils down to commands and command-execute in the end.
command-execute to. There are multiple possible forms for menu items, and they can appear on multiple keymaps. You can take a look at the code in lacarte.el to get an idea. See, e.g., function lacarte-add-if-menu-item.
– Drew
Jun 24 '18 at 16:00
