This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give a recipe starting from `emacs -Q': ====== reproducting the bug ======= 1) emacs -Q 2) type the following text (abcd in three lines), abcd abcd abcd 3) put the point before the first "a" 4) record a kbd-macro that searches "b" and type delete (NOT C-d), that is, type C-x ( C-s b del C-x ) 5) when recording the kbd-macro, the first line becomes "abd" (c gets deleted) 6) repeat the kbd-macro twice. The text becomes abd ab ab (that is, 2 chars are deleted!!) 7) type M-x edit-last-kbd-macro RET and see the strange 2* in the output: ;; Keyboard Macro Editor. Press C-c C-c to finish; press C-x k RET to cancel. ;; Original keys: C-s b 2*C-d Command: last-kbd-macro Key: none Macro: C-s ;; isearch-forward b ;; self-insert-command 2*C-d ;; delete-char 8) note: I typed del and NOT C-d. Using C-d instead, the bug does not happen. ========================= If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file /usr/local/share/emacs/23.1.90/etc/DEBUG. In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2010-05-27 on edf Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000 configured using `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_NZ.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: a a a ( b c d C-k C-k C-k C-y C-y C-y C-y C-x ( C-s ( C-x ) C-x e e e a a a b C-y C-y C-y C-y C-x ( C-s b C-x ) C-x e e e C-y C-y C-y C-y C-x ( C-s a a C-x ) C-x e e e Recent messages: Mark set [4 times] Defining kbd macro... Mark saved where search started Keyboard macro defined (Type e to repeat macro) [3 times] Mark set [4 times] Defining kbd macro... Mark saved where search started Keyboard macro defined (Type e to repeat macro) [3 times] Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail regexp-opt ecomplete rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug edmacro multi-isearch kmacro tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd font-setting tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) -- Miguel Vinicius Santini Frasson mvsfrasson@gmail.com