From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keyboard macro and regexp syntax search Date: 20 Dec 2007 21:20:16 GMT Organization: Sedgeboy Inc. Message-ID: References: <8e0f9a74-6582-441f-b16a-0ae62af0e142@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198186947 12084 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2007 21:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:42:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 20 22:42:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J5T9q-0006GE-Q7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:42:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5T9X-0006bY-6O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:42:03 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!news.aliant.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Lines: 54 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.177.89.6 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154831 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50257 Archived-At: On 2007-12-20, spamfilteraccount@gmail.com wrote: > Here's a key sequence which searches a whitespace character with a non- > whitespace character after it and moves right to terminate the search > there (just an example): > > M-C-s \s-\S- > > > According to the macro editor it is recorded like this: > > ;; Keyboard Macro Editor. Press C-c C-c to finish; press C-x k RET to > cancel. > ;; Original keys: M-C-s \ s \ S > > Command: last-kbd-macro > Key: none > > Macro: > > M-C-s ;; isearch-forward-regexp > \ ;; self-insert-command > s ;; self-insert-command > \ ;; self-insert-command > S ;; self-insert-command > ;; forward-char-nomark > > > > The dash (-) character is missing after the syntax matcher (\s and > \S), so the macro doesn't work at playback. Is it a bug? > > GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE It works as expected for me, running Emacs 22.1.1: ;; Keyboard Macro Editor. Press C-c C-c to finish; press C-x k RET to cancel. ;; Original keys: M-C-s \ s- \ S- Command: last-kbd-macro Key: none Macro: M-C-s ;; isearch-forward-regexp \ ;; self-insert-command s- ;; self-insert-command * 2 \ ;; self-insert-command S- ;; self-insert-command * 2 ;; forward-char Can you reproduce the problem when you launch Emacs with no init files (i.e., emacs -Q)? Tyler