keyboard macro counter

keyboard macro counter

[Luc Teirlinck]

`(emacs)Keyboard Macro Counter' claims:

	Each keyboard macro has an associated counter

This is apparently wrong.  Each macro _that is a member of the
keyboard macro ring_ as an associated counter.  Also, the counter used
by a keyboard macro (say invoked using a keybinding or with M-x) is
not the counter associated with that macro (even if it has one) but
the counter associated with the current head of the macro ring.  That
is the actual counter that will get inserted and incremented,
regardless of the macro currently being executed.

Is this for some reason designed behavior or is this a bug?

To illustrate what I am talking about, see what happens if you do:

emacs -q
C-x ( a C-x C-k C-i RET C-x ) C-x C-k n aa RET C-x ( b M-5 C-x C-k C-i
RET C-x ) M-x aa RET C-x e

Sincerely,

Luc.

Re: keyboard macro counter

[Kim F. Storm]

Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:

> `(emacs)Keyboard Macro Counter' claims:
>
> 	Each keyboard macro has an associated counter
>
> This is apparently wrong.  Each macro _that is a member of the
> keyboard macro ring_ as an associated counter.  Also, the counter used
> by a keyboard macro (say invoked using a keybinding or with M-x) is
> not the counter associated with that macro (even if it has one) but
> the counter associated with the current head of the macro ring.  That
> is the actual counter that will get inserted and incremented,
> regardless of the macro currently being executed.

That's a really good catch!!
And similar for the macro counter format.

>
> Is this for some reason designed behavior or is this a bug?

It is a bug.

The question is whether it really matters (personally, I never had the
need for that aspect of the macro counter feature).  So perhaps it
would be ok to just document the current behaviour (as a warning).

Fixing it is non-trivial, but let me look at it...

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

Re: keyboard macro counter

[Kim F. Storm]

storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
>
>> `(emacs)Keyboard Macro Counter' claims:
>>
>> 	Each keyboard macro has an associated counter
>>
>> This is apparently wrong.  Each macro _that is a member of the
>> keyboard macro ring_ as an associated counter.  Also, the counter used
>> by a keyboard macro (say invoked using a keybinding or with M-x) is
>> not the counter associated with that macro (even if it has one) but
>> the counter associated with the current head of the macro ring.  That
>> is the actual counter that will get inserted and incremented,
>> regardless of the macro currently being executed.
>
> It is a bug.

I just installed a fix for bindings created with C-x C-k b and
C-x C-k n, so now the behaviour should correspond to the documentation.

Thanks again for spotting this.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk