If I execute a keyboard macro that ends in an occur-mode buffer, Emacs gives the usual '(Type e to repeat macro)' prompt, but if you type 'e' it gets rejected because the occur buffer is read-only. I can still repeat the macro with C-x e (or C-u 100 C-x e, which is probably what you usually do with macros in occur buffers), but it is surprising at first. In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) of 2010-05-10 on discordia Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000 configured using `configure '--without-sound'' 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_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Occur Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input:

C-x e

e e C-x e

e C-x e

C-x e

C-u 2 0 C-x e

C-w

M-x d e l e d u p C-g

C-w

C-x C-s

M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g Recent messages: Buffer is read-only: # (Type e to repeat macro) Buffer is read-only: # (Type e to repeat macro) [8 times] After 14 kbd macro iterations: occur-mode-find-occurrence: No occurrence on this line Making completion list... [2 times] Quit Auto-saving...done Load-path shadows: ~/emacs-lisp/css-mode hides /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/textmodes/css-mode ~/emacs-lisp/greek hides /usr/local/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/language/greek Features: (shadow mail-extr message ecomplete rfc822 mml 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 disp-table woman novice hideif find-func two-column iso-transl dictionary link connection multi-isearch noutline outline ruler-mode mule-util hl-line hexl sort newcomment server skeleton sh-script jka-compr help-mode view make-mode executable grep ansi-color shell vc-dispatcher vc-svn man paren cua-base cus-start cus-load acme-search slime byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile apropos easy-mmode hyperspec browse-url hideshow pp quack thingatpt compile cmuscheme comint scheme session xref rx ecf-mode dcm-general arc-mode archive-mode tar-mode advice advice-preload vanc-mode php-mode speedbar sb-image ezimage dframe assoc darcs-mode derived css-mode cc-mode cc-fonts cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs regexp-opt eperiodic edmacro kmacro sudoku easymenu esh-var esh-io esh-cmd esh-ext esh-proc esh-arg esh-groups eshell esh-module esh-mode esh-util etags ring cl cl-19 eldoc help-fns 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 system-font-setting font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)