Re: Macro suddenly broken

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>
>>> Not really but what happens when you run the keyboard macro manually,
>>> i.e., just press the sequence of keys defining it?
>>>
>>> The "ringing the bell" means that some error during movement
>>> occurred, e.g., like pressing <down> when you are already on the last
>>> line of the buffer.
>>
>> Thank you. On the non-working system, I type:
>>
>> M M e, but Emacs displays:
>>
>> ^M ^M E is undefined
>
> Same here: M M e is undefined
>
> I guess, that's already the reason.  The keyboard macro fails because
> the start of the macro's key sequence doesn't invoke any command.

On the working system, 'M M e' is nothing, but 'M M e e' is:

    ⇧M ⇧M E E runs the command gnus-summary-put-mark-as-expirable, which
   is an interactive Lisp function in `gnus-sum.el'.

    It is bound to ⇧M ⇧M E E.

    (gnus-summary-put-mark-as-expirable N)


    Mark the current article as expirable.
    If N, the prefix, then repeat N times.
    If N is negative, move in reverse order.
    The difference between N and the actual number of articles marked is
    returned.

>
>> The definitions (and the .gnus.el files) are the same on the two systems:
>>
>> (defun pm/alter-summary-map ()
>>   (local-set-key "d" [?M ?M ?e ?e down ?g]))
>>
>> (defun pm/alter-article-map ()
>>   (local-set-key "d" "MMeen"))
>
> Is is possible that you are running two different Gnus versions on the
> two computers, i.e., in one version M M e is bound to something and in
> one it is not?  (I use the latest Gnus version from Git, and there M M
> e is not bound neither in the summary nor in the article buffer.)
>
> Anyway, what does `C-h k M M e' show in a summary/article buffer on the
> computer where your macro still works?

As above, 'M M e e' is (gnus-summary-put-mark-as-expirable N)

So it appears something is causing the failing emacs to think 'M M e' is the whole sequence, and it's undefined. That gets me a
little closer.

Thank you, Tassilo!

-pd