Keyboard macro and org-mode

Keyboard macro and org-mode

[Alan Tyree]

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I was trying to build a keyboard macro to remove targets of the form

<<sec:some_title>>

When in org-mode, emacs hangs after C-s <. If I turn off org mode and use a
simple text mode, the keyboard macro works ok.

Is this a bug or am I doing something pretty dumb?

Thanks,
Alan

emacs version: 24.3.1 on Ubuntu 14.04

org version: 8.2.6

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Alan L Tyree
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Re: Keyboard macro and org-mode

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:47:23PM +1000, Alan Tyree wrote:
> I was trying to build a keyboard macro to remove targets of the form
> 
> <<sec:some_title>>
> 
> When in org-mode, emacs hangs after C-s <. If I turn off org mode and use a
> simple text mode, the keyboard macro works ok.
> 
> Is this a bug or am I doing something pretty dumb?

Would help if you shared the macro.

Some ideas for troubleshooting:

1. you can inspect and re-edit the macro by calling `edit-last-kbd-macro',
2. you can name the last macro with `name-last-kbd-macro', you can then
   get the lisp source and save it in .emacs with `insert-kbd-macro'
   (see: (info "(emacs) Save Keyboard Macro")).

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: Keyboard macro and org-mode

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Alan,

You forgot to cc the list!

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 05:19:05AM +1000, Alan Tyree wrote:
> Can't do it since I could never get past the first step of the macro. It
> was intended to be a dead simple throw away:
> 
> Search for "<<ssec:"  (this is where emacs hangs when defining the macro)
> 
> Go to beginning of line
> 
> Delete line.
> 
> (All of the <<>> targets are on a single line).
> 
> Emacs hangs like it is searching, the little circle thingie just keeps
> going. I can kill the process with multiple punches of C-g.
>

Do you have lots of minor-modes enabled?  Maybe one of them is
interfering.  Is your file very big?  Can you replicate with an ECM?
Does it have source blocks?  Have you tried turning off font-lock-mode;
does it succeed then?

Just some questions that I could think of.  Maybe the answer is lurking
here.

> As I said, no problem in a normal text-mode file.

Another nice test would be to record and save the keyboard macro from
text-mode and try executing it from org-mode.

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.