I would like to report the following bug. Open the attached file in Emacs, and move point to the first position. Define a keyboard macro: (I want to put each line inside double-quotes) " ;; self-insert-command C-e ;; move-end-of-line " ;; self-insert-command C-a ;; message-beginning-of-line ;; next-line Now ask Emacs to repeat this macro 49 times. The result is wrong: at around line 35, the first double-quote is no longer at the start of the line; then on successive lines the position of the first inserted double-quote walks to the right. ----------------------------------------------------------------- In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2015-04-10 on builder10-6.porkrind.org Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038 Configured using: `configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/site-lisp' --host=i686-apple-darwin --build=i686-apple-darwin --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no' Important settings: locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: recentf-mode: t show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: Cleaning up the recentf list... File /Users/abbott/ShortTerm/EMACS-BUG-orig removed from the recentf list Cleaning up the recentf list...done (1 removed) Loading /Users/abbott/Work/CoCoA/CoCoA4/4.7/UI/emacs/cocoa.emacs...done Loading /Users/abbott/Work/CoCoA/CoCoA5/CoCoALib-0.99/src/CoCoA-5/emacs/cocoa5.emacs...done Loading rmail-spam-filter.elc...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Defining kbd macro... Keyboard macro defined (Type e to repeat macro) Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr warnings emacsbug sendmail cl-extra info magit-autoloads git-rebase-mode-autoloads git-commit-mode-autoloads package epg-config rmail-spam-filter rmailsum rmail recentf tree-widget wid-edit git-blame git derived log-edit easy-mmode message cl-macs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader ring pcvs-util add-log ewoc cl gv paren cus-start cus-load edmacro kmacro cl-loaddefs cl-lib time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel ns-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process cocoa ns multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 143707 11759) (symbols 24 23822 0) (miscs 20 100 224) (strings 16 30397 6332) (string-bytes 1 745514) (vectors 8 14455) (vector-slots 4 436468 9860) (floats 8 71 198) (intervals 28 254 26) (buffers 512 14))