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24.5; beginning-of-line wrong in repeated kbd macro

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From: abbott <at> dima.unige.it
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: Abbott John <abbott <at> dima.unige.it>
Subject: 24.5; beginning-of-line wrong in repeated kbd macro
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 16:30:32 +0000

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I would like to report the following bug.
Open the attached file in Emacs, and move point to the first position.
Define a keyboard macro: (I want to put each line inside double-quotes)
"			;; self-insert-command
C-e			;; move-end-of-line
"			;; self-insert-command
C-a			;; message-beginning-of-line
<down>			;; next-line

Now ask Emacs to repeat this macro 49 times.
The result is wrong: at around line 35, the first double-quote
is no longer at the start of the line; then on successive lines
the position of the first inserted double-quote walks to the right.

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Defining kbd macro...
Keyboard macro defined
(Type e to repeat macro)

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Message #10 received at 23551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: abbott <at> dima.unige.it
Cc: 23551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23551: 24.5; beginning-of-line wrong in repeated kbd macro
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 20:30:29 +0300

> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 16:30:32 +0000
> From: abbott <at> dima.unige.it
> Cc: Abbott John <abbott <at> dima.unige.it>
> 
> Open the attached file in Emacs, and move point to the first position.
> Define a keyboard macro: (I want to put each line inside double-quotes)
> "			;; self-insert-command
> C-e			;; move-end-of-line
> "			;; self-insert-command
> C-a			;; message-beginning-of-line
> <down>			;; next-line
> 
> Now ask Emacs to repeat this macro 49 times.
> The result is wrong: at around line 35, the first double-quote
> is no longer at the start of the line; then on successive lines
> the position of the first inserted double-quote walks to the right.

Thanks.

This is a duplicate of the (old, but unsolved) bug #13452.  The
problem is not in beginning-of-line, it's in next-line: when the
window needs to scroll as result of next-line, point ends up in
columns 1, 2, 3, ... (i.e. gains one column per line moved down),
instead of sticking to column zero.

To work around, set line-move-visual to nil before running the macro
(or as part of the macro), then the problem goes away.

I'll try to debug this one of these days.

Message #15 received at 23551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: abbott <at> dima.unige.it
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23551: 24.5; beginning-of-line wrong in repeated kbd macro
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 19:36:42 +0000

Hi Eli

Thanks for the swift response, and the explanation.

> This is a duplicate of the (old, but unsolved) bug #13452....
> To work around, set line-move-visual to nil before running the macro

It seems that move-end-of-line and then forward-char achieves the right
thing (at least it did in a quick test).


> I'll try to debug this one of these days.

Good luck!

John Abbott

Message #18 received at 23551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: abbott <at> dima.unige.it
Cc: 23551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23551: 24.5; beginning-of-line wrong in repeated kbd macro
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 22:42:09 +0300

> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 19:36:42 +0000
> From: abbott <at> dima.unige.it
> Cc: 23551 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> It seems that move-end-of-line and then forward-char achieves the right
> thing (at least it did in a quick test).

But the above two calls are not a good replacement for next-line, they
produce different results.

> > I'll try to debug this one of these days.
> 
> Good luck!

I doubt that luck has anything to do with this ;-)

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