Re: Keyboard macros updating screen

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Arndt Jonasson" <arndt.jonasson@gmail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> "Arndt Jonasson" <arndt.jonasson@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Is there any way to tell a keyboard macro to just
>> > do whatever it is supposed to do, and not update
>> > the screen for each change that it makes to the
>> > buffer? Comparing with previous versions of Emacs
>> > (I upgraded recently), the behaviour I'm seeing is
>> > so slow that keyboard macros seem virtually useless.
>> >
>> > My Emacs version is 21.4.
>>
>> Using a developer snapshot should make life quite more pleasant.  What
>> is your operating system?
>
> Could it affects the way Emacs runs keyboard macros?

Definitely.

> It's Ubuntu Breezy.

apt-get install emacs-snapshot

should work if the dapper-universe repository is in your
/etc/apt/sources.list (which it is by default unless I am mistaken).


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