From: Raymond Zeitler <rzeitler@phonon.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "r.zeitler@ieee.org" <r.zeitler@ieee.org>,
"13452@debbugs.gnu.org" <13452@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#13452: 24.1; Macro Playback Fails When Buffer Scrolls
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:55:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3BECA95B858C4D9F42F2A6CDFC04DD37BE93D9@Exchange2010.PHONON.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83obgq8dgl.fsf@gnu.org>
Dear Eli:
Thank you so much for your helpful and quick reply, and also for your involvement in the mailing lists, which has helped me many times before.
Sorry about sending a bug report, especially using MS Outlook.
Peace.
- Ray
-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:eliz@gnu.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 2:16 PM
To: Raymond Zeitler
Cc: 13452@debbugs.gnu.org; r.zeitler@ieee.org
Subject: Re: bug#13452: 24.1; Macro Playback Fails When Buffer Scrolls
> From: Raymond Zeitler <rzeitler@phonon.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:01:13 +0000
> Cc: "r.zeitler@ieee.org" <r.zeitler@ieee.org>
>
> Create a file with many more lines than the buffer can display at once.
> In my test, the buffer has about 500 identical lines like this:
>
> 123456789 0123456789 01234567890
>
> Then place Point at line 1 column 1.
>
> I recorded the keyboard macro that you see in Recent Input, which merely
> moves point just past the first 9, then deletes it and puts an "x" in
> its place for the first three lines. Then it puts a "y" for the next
> three. Point is then moved to the start of the next line before the
> macro is finished recording.
>
> Play back the macro a few dozen times.
>
> As Point keeps moving down, the buffer will need to scroll. When it
> does scroll, Point will not return to the start of the next line.
Set line-move-visual to nil, and Bob's your uncle.
> I'm amazed that I've been using Emacs (with macros) for 12.5 years and
> never noticed this before!
line-move-visual didn't exist before Emacs 23. So most of those 12.5
years, the bug didn't exist, because the only behavior available was
the one you see when you set line-move-visual to a nil value.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-15 18:01 bug#13452: 24.1; Macro Playback Fails When Buffer Scrolls Raymond Zeitler
2013-01-15 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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