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> From: Dick Schofield <Dick.Schofield@invalid.mediaone.net>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:35:00 GMT
> > 
> > this represents a change from emacs 20.  i've checked the docs, faq
> > and changelog and i can't figure out how to re-create the emacs
> > 20 behavior.
> > 
> > how does one define (or call) a keyboard macro so that it doesn't
> > "replay" every action if executed a number of times?
> 
> I, too, see this behavior with the Win32 version of emacs 21.1
> and hope someone will post a response and workaround.

I think this is a known misfeature that should be corrected in a
future release, perhaps even in the very next one.