Subject: bug#10461: emacs is not a macro-editor

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:34:01 -0500

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[email-masked] wrote:

> I have forgotten that :
> in my problem, file is build with very long lines (frequently 500
> bytes) on Mac Intosh. There are very important difference between
> logical lines (in file) and physical lines (in window).
> the X-windows has not good position after execution my macro when two
> consecutive matches are very distant and require a refresh of the
> screen.

Then I imagine this is the same issue as
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7046

ie visual-line-mode can affect the way macros behave.