Re: keyboard macro counter

[Kim F. Storm]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> `(emacs)Keyboard Macro Counter' claims:
>
>       Each keyboard macro has an associated counter
>
> This is apparently wrong.  Each macro _that is a member of the
> keyboard macro ring_ as an associated counter.  Also, the counter used
> by a keyboard macro (say invoked using a keybinding or with M-x) is
> not the counter associated with that macro (even if it has one) but
> the counter associated with the current head of the macro ring.  That
> is the actual counter that will get inserted and incremented,
> regardless of the macro currently being executed.

That's a really good catch!!
And similar for the macro counter format.

>
> Is this for some reason designed behavior or is this a bug?

It is a bug.

The question is whether it really matters (personally, I never had the
need for that aspect of the macro counter feature).  So perhaps it
would be ok to just document the current behaviour (as a warning).

Fixing it is non-trivial, but let me look at it...

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk