From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: abbott@dima.unige.it, Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>,
Raymond Zeitler <rzeitler@phonon.com>
Cc: 13452-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13452: bug#23551: 24.5; beginning-of-line wrong in repeated kbd macro
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 18:38:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83shx2xkdu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wpmt52ru.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 16 May 2016 20:30:29 +0300)
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 20:30:29 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 23551@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 16:30:32 +0000
> > From: abbott@dima.unige.it
> > Cc: Abbott John <abbott@dima.unige.it>
> >
> > 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
> > <down> ;; 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.
>
> Thanks.
>
> This is a duplicate of the (old, but unsolved) bug #13452. The
> problem is not in beginning-of-line, it's in next-line: when the
> window needs to scroll as result of next-line, point ends up in
> columns 1, 2, 3, ... (i.e. gains one column per line moved down),
> instead of sticking to column zero.
>
> To work around, set line-move-visual to nil before running the macro
> (or as part of the macro), then the problem goes away.
>
> I'll try to debug this one of these days.
Should be fixed now, please test the latest Emacs master branch.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-16 16:30 bug#23551: 24.5; beginning-of-line wrong in repeated kbd macro abbott
2016-05-16 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-16 19:36 ` abbott
2016-05-16 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-28 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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