GNU bug report logs - #15126
24.3; kmacro-end-and-call-macro repeats macro multiple times following isearch-forward

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Reported by: Simon Katz <nomiskatz <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
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Subject: bug#15126: closed (24.3; kmacro-end-and-call-macro repeats macro
 multiple times following isearch-forward)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:09:02 +0000
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From: Simon Katz <nomiskatz <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; kmacro-end-and-call-macro repeats macro multiple times
 following isearch-forward
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:39:41 +0100
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If I have a buffer with some text that is repeated several times and
do the following:
  - C-s <some text>  (isearch-forward)   to search for the repeated text
  - C-x (   (kmacro-start-macro)
  - Enter some new text
  - C-s C-s   to search again
  - C-x e  (kmacro-end-and-call-macro)
I get different behaviour in my old and new versions of Emacs.

In Emacs 24.2.1 and all previous versions I've used,
kmacro-end-and-call-macro calls the macro once more, and I can go
through the file making changes one at a time, and I can stop when I
want.

In Emacs 24.3.1, kmacro-end-and-call-macro calls the macro repeatedly
making changes to all the repeated text up to the end of the file.

Interestingly, if I define a similar keyboard macro that uses
next-error rather than isearch-forward I get my changes one at a time.

Is this some bizarre new behaviour for isearch-forward? Can I get the
old behaviour back?

Here's a precise recipe:

  /Applications/Emacs-24-3-1.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q

  Then at the start of the *scratch* buffer:

  C-s   e r   C-x (   x x x x   C-s C-s   C-x e

  Emacs makes multiple changes for the  C-x e.





In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
 of 2013-03-13 on bob.porkrind.org
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1138
Configured using:
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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Simon Katz <nomiskatz <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 15126-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15126: 24.3;
 kmacro-end-and-call-macro repeats macro multiple times following
 isearch-forward
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:06:58 +0300
>> In Emacs 24.3.1, kmacro-end-and-call-macro calls the macro repeatedly
>> making changes to all the repeated text up to the end of the file.
>
> It's clear that neither `C-x' nor `C-x e' should be stored.
> So not storing `C-x e' will not execute the same macro repeatedly.

This case is fixed now.  Thanks for the bug report.

There is another case where instead of `C-x e'
typing more verbosely `M-x kmacro-end-and-call-macro RET'
will store this sequence in the macro.

But it's not a isearch specific problem as it can be reproduced
without isearch by the test case:

  M-x kmacro-start-macro RET x x x x
  M-x kmacro-end-and-call-macro RET

It doesn't stop after the first macro execution
because it stores M-x and the command in the macro:

Macro:
4*x			;; self-insert-command
M-x			;; execute-extended-command
kmacro-end-and-call-macro	;; self-insert-command * 25

This is a minor problem since nobody reported it
because there are more convenient keys to do the same
with `C-x ( x x x x C-x e' (or F3/F4).


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