GNU bug report logs - #10461
emacs is not a macro-editor

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: andre.desnoyers <at> upmc.fr

Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:28:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 7046, 8114

Found in versions 23.1, 24.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: andre.desnoyers <at> upmc.fr
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: emacs is not a macro-editor
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:25:15 +0100

Take un medium file : 4000 lines
Set a match for a search
build the macro
C-a			;; move-beginning-of-line
2*C-k			;; kill-line
C-x C-x			;; exchange-point-and-mark
C-y			;; yank
2*C-s			;; isearch-forward
C-a			;; move-beginning-of-line

this macro normally groups all lines who contain the match.

If two matches are more distant  than about 50 lines the second match  
is not found, but the macro can be repeated !

this bug exists in 22- versions and last 23-version on Mac.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 142 days ago.

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