Re: keyboard macros under emacs 21

[Dick Schofield]

rick pim wrote:
> i'm using emacs 21.2 under solaris 8. if i "write" a keyboard macro to
> modify a line in a file and then execute it many times for every line
> in a large file, emacs 21 displays the progress of the macro execution
> on the screen. if the file is large enough, the screen redisplay can
> slow down the overall execution of the macro.
> 
> this represents a change from emacs 20.  i've checked the docs, faq
> and changelog and i can't figure out how to re-create the emacs
> 20 behavior.
> 
> how does one define (or call) a keyboard macro so that it doesn't
> "replay" every action if executed a number of times?
> 
> rick pim
> queen's university
> 

I, too, see this behavior with the Win32 version of emacs 21.1
and hope someone will post a response and workaround.


Dick