From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rick pim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: keyboard macros under emacs 21 Date: 13 Jan 2003 13:18:18 -0500 Organization: Queen's University, Kingston Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042482646 16019 80.91.224.249 (13 Jan 2003 18:30:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 18:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Y9MD-0004AD-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:30:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Y9Ln-0001IG-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:30:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!torn!news.ccs.queensu.ca!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: post.queensu.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108916 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5444 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5444 i'm using emacs 21.2 under solaris 8. if i "write" a keyboard macro to modify a line in a file and then execute it many times for every line in a large file, emacs 21 displays the progress of the macro execution on the screen. if the file is large enough, the screen redisplay can slow down the overall execution of the macro. 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? rick pim queen's university