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24.3; kmacro-end-and-call-macro repeats macro multiple times following isearch-forward

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From: Simon Katz <sk <at> nomistech.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: Simon Katz <nomiskatz <at> gmail.com>, 15126-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15126: 24.3; kmacro-end-and-call-macro repeats macro multiple times following isearch-forward
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 14:10:40 +0100

Juri Linkov wrote on 2013-08-27 17:06:
>>> 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).

Great, and thanks for the additional info.

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