From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Speed of keyboard macro execution?
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:01:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9jqrpa9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m237vaox04.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:43:23 -0800")
John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Visual positioning makes no sense without visual feedback. Can you show a
>> single example of a task to be done by a keyboard macro where visual
>> positioning would _help_ achieve that task rather than sabotage it?
>
> I don't get this argument. What is the real problem here? I've never
> faced on issue on this point with macros before, and I've been using
> them for a long time.
Have you ever had a case where visual positioning during macro
recording/replay was helpful? Or have you "never faced this issue"
merely because your lines were short enough that the difference was
irrelevant?
> In cases where visual positioning became a problem, I used
> `toggle-truncate-lines'.
Depending on what font highlighting may do, vertical movement based on
visual entities is still different.
> I'd much rather have intervention be manual, than changing the core
> behavior in ways that are hard to understand. It may well be that
> there are times when I want visual positioning without feedback,
> simply because it matches what I'm expecting to happen.
So you don't have an example where having macros recorded/replayed using
visual movements would be useful, but you would not want it different on
principle.
Can we have an option to customize for less principled people?
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-10 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-09 21:39 Speed of keyboard macro execution? Perry E. Metzger
2015-12-09 22:13 ` David Engster
2015-12-09 23:03 ` Perry E. Metzger
2015-12-10 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 17:00 ` Perry E. Metzger
2015-12-10 17:14 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 17:27 ` David Engster
2015-12-10 17:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
2015-12-10 17:39 ` David Engster
2015-12-10 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 18:10 ` Perry E. Metzger
2015-12-10 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 18:44 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 19:38 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 20:09 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 20:55 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:16 ` Perry E. Metzger
2015-12-10 20:18 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 20:36 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:43 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 21:01 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-12-10 21:26 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 23:35 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-11 1:14 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-11 6:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-12 22:56 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-12 23:46 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-13 0:16 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-13 0:32 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-12 23:20 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-12 16:51 ` Perry E. Metzger
2015-12-12 17:42 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-12 23:01 ` Disabling visual lines for macros (was: Speed of keyboard macro execution?) John Wiegley
2015-12-12 23:33 ` Disabling visual lines for macros David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:45 ` Speed of keyboard macro execution? Perry E. Metzger
2015-12-10 20:50 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 20:50 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 21:13 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 17:43 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 18:15 ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-10 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-12 2:14 ` Joseph Mingrone
2015-12-12 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-12 17:28 ` Joseph Mingrone
2015-12-12 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-12 18:12 ` Joseph Mingrone
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