Re: address@hidden: Keyboard macros misfiring]

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> This looks like a bug in move-beginning-of-line.
> Would you please DTRT?
>

I have changed move-beginning-of-line to use vertical-motion and
constrain-to-field (like beginning-of-line does) which seems to
give better results than the previous version (and avoid sit-for).


> From: Peter Seibel <address@hidden>
> Subject: Keyboard macros misfiring
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:42:02 -0800
>
>
> Open a new file and insert the following text upto and including the
> line "This is a test" an the following blank line.
>
> 1. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 2. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 3. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 4. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 5. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 6. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 7. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 8. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 9. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 10. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
>
> This is a test
>
> Then copy that chunk enough times that at least one "This is a test"
> is off the bottom of the buffer. Now go to the top of the buffer and
> record the following keyboard macro:
>
> C-s                   ;; isearch-forward
> This                  ;; self-insert-command * 4
> C-a                   ;; move-beginning-of-line
> C-k                   ;; kill-line
> C-x C-o                       ;; delete-blank-lines
>
> Then execute this macro repeatedly. For me it works fine until it
> tries to search for one of the This is a tests that not visible off
> the bottom of the buffer--it'll jump to some other line and then
> delete it instead which you can tell from the numbers at the
> beginnings of the "Now is the time" lines.
>
> - -Peter
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2005-03-13 on xeon
> Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40200000
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_US.iso885915
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Text
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   erc-services-mode: t
>   erc-autojoin-mode: t
>   erc-button-mode: t
>   erc-ring-mode: t
>   erc-pcomplete-mode: t
>   erc-track-mode: t
>   erc-fill-mode: t
>   erc-netsplit-mode: t
>   erc-irccontrols-mode: t
>   erc-noncommands-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> C-x ( C-s T h i s C-a C-k C-x C-o C-x ) C-x e C-x e 
> e e e e e e <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> C-x e M-< 
> C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-w 
> C-y <return> <return> C-p C-p T h i s SPC i s SPC a 
> SPC t e s t C-n <return> C-SPC M-< C-w C-y C-x C-f 
> C-g M-x e <backspace> r e p <tab> o r t <tab> <return> 
> K e y b o r d SPC <up> a c <M-backspace> C-g M-x <up> 
> <return>
>
> Recent messages:
> Mark activated
> Mark set [16 times]
> Defining kbd macro...
> Mark saved where search started
> Keyboard macro defined
> (Type e to repeat macro) [9 times]
> Mark set [6 times]
> Quit
> Making completion list...
> Loading emacsbug...done
> Quit
>
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk