Subject: bug#65605: [PATCH] Command and option to make Edmacro better for long sequences

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 11:36:36 -0700

Okamsn via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> From f1365193df83f7a765abc95507bbddb0d5d5a929 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Earl Hyatt <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 18:26:45 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH v3] Make using Edmacro better for long sequences of keys.
>
> * lisp/edmacro.el (edmacro-set-macro-to-region-lines,
> edmacro-reverse-key-order): New command and user option to
> make working with longer lists of keys (such as from
> 'kmacro-edit-lossage') easier.
> (edit-kbd-macro): Move regexps used to identify parts of buffer
> to internal variables.
> (edmacro--macro-lines-regexp, edmacro-mode-font-lock-keywords): Allow
> noting whether the most recent line of keys is displayed first.
> (edmacro-mode-map): Bind the new command to 'C-c C-r'.
> (edmacro-mode): Describe the new command in the mode documentation
> string.

Thanks, this looks like a useful feature.

Your patch LGTM, but I think it deserves to be called out in NEWS.