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Mistyping a search breaks keyboard macro

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#66149: closed (Re: bug#66149: Mistyping a search breaks
 keyboard macro)
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 08:01:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#66149: Mistyping a search breaks keyboard macro

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 66149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 66149-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#66149: Mistyping a search breaks keyboard macro
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:00:24 +0300

> From: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>
> Cc: 66149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:14:59 +0300
> 
> On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 18:41 +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > >
> > I have no opinion whether 'ding' should terminate kbd macro or not.
> > But it's possible to customize 'isearch-wrap-pause' to 'no-ding'
> > to not ding on isearch failure, then kbd macro is not terminated.
> 
> Oh, thank you! So for example, having the following code in the init
> file works around the problem:
> 
>     (defadvice kmacro-call-macro (around align-regexp-with-spaces activate)
>       (let ((isearch-wrap-pause 'no-ding))
>         ad-do-it))
> 
> I'll post an answer about that on the emacs.stackexchange then.

And I'm closing the bug.

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From: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Mistyping a search breaks keyboard macro
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:09:59 +0300

If a user recorded a keyboard macro, upon replaying they expect the actions will be executed exactly as performed during recording.

Unfortunately that doesn't hold for searches, which is unfortunate, because search is very useful during keyboard-macros. If a user mistypes a search, they usually just remove the offending letters and it just works. However replaying such record fails with `Keyboard macro terminated by a command ringing the bell`

# Steps to reproduce

1. `emacs -Q`
2. Press `F3` to start recording a macro
3. Press `C-s` to start search and type `bufg`. The letter `g` will get highlighted in red because there's no such word
4. Press Backspace to remove `g` letter
5. Press `f` so the word is `buff`
6. Finish the macro by pressing `F4`
7. Execute the macro by pressing `F4`

## Expected

Search succeeds

## Actual

Search fails with `After 0 kbd macro iterations: isearch-search: Keyboard macro terminated by a command ringing the bell`

# Additional information

Emacs build from git as of commit 04710bd01b2

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