Re: Macros don't work in Dired

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.bug/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 17 Aug 2001 10:54:21 -0400
> 
> >> I don't remember reading in the documentation that keyboard
> >> macros cannot run commands that ask for input, but I'm going to check
> >> it.
> > It wasn't documented, but it will be in the next release.  Thanks for 
> > pointing this out.
> 
> I personally would rather consider it as a bug.  When running such
> a keyboard macro, when the end of the macro is reached, the input
> should automatically be redirected to the keyboard, so that
> a macro such as "R" works correctly.

I don't mind making this change, if no one else objects.  But until we
do, the current behavior should be documented, I think.