[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: kmacro-end-and-call-macro repeats macro multiple times following ise
From: |
nomiskatz |
Subject: |
Re: kmacro-end-and-call-macro repeats macro multiple times following isearch-forward |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Aug 2013 02:13:20 -0700 (PDT) |
User-agent: |
G2/1.0 |
Grrrr! And apologies.
I missed out a step -- calling isearch-forward from within the keyboard macro.
It should be:
- C-s (isearch-forward) to search for the repeated text
- C-x ( (kmacro-start-macro)
- Enter some new text
- C-s C-s to search again
- C-x e (kmacro-end-and-call-macro)
On Sunday, 18 August 2013 09:08:17 UTC+1, nomi...@gmail.com wrote:
> I've just upgraded from Emacs 24.2.1 to Emacs 24.3.1.
>
>
>
> Full version details:
>
> "GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
>
> of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org"
>
> and
>
> "GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
>
> of 2013-03-13 on bob.porkrind.org"
>
>
>
> If I have a buffer with some text that is repeated several times and do the
> following...
>
> - C-s (isearch-forward) to search for the repeated text
>
> - C-x ( (kmacro-start-macro)
>
> - Enter some new text
>
> - C-x e (kmacro-end-and-call-macro)
>
> ... I get different behaviour in my old and new versions of Emacs.
>
>
>
> In Emacs 24.2.1 and all previous versions I've used,
> kmacro-end-and-call-macro calls the macro once more, and I can go through the
> file making changes one at a time, and I can stop when I want.
>
>
>
> In Emacs 24.3.1, kmacro-end-and-call-macro calls the macro repeatedly making
> changes to all the repeated text up to the end of the file.
>
>
>
> Interestingly, if I define a similar keyboard macro that uses next-error
> rather than isearch-forward I get my changes one at a time.
>
>
>
> Is this some bizarre new behaviour for isearch-forward? Can I get the old
> behaviour back?
>
>
>
> _
>
> Simon