Re: Macro suddenly broken

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
>> Thanks very much for the detailed instructions. This will certainly be
>> useful in the future. However, ...
>>
>> I did this, resulting in:
>>
>> (fset 'pd/gnus-expire-and-show-next
>>    (lambda (&optional arg) "Keyboard macro." (interactive "p") (kmacro-exec-ring-item (quote ("E " 0 "%d")) arg)))
>>
>> (defun pm/alter-summary-map ()
>> ;  (local-set-key "d" [?M ?M ?e ?e down ?g])
>>   (local-set-key "d" 'pd/gnus-expire-and-show-next)
>>   (local-set-key "vj" "BmINBOX.Junk Mail")
>>   )
>>
>> Unfortunately, I'm *still* getting:
>>
>> After 0 kbd macro iterations: undefined: Keyboard macro terminated by
>> a command ringing the bell
>
> Strange.  I can use that here and it works, i.e., it marks the current
> article as expirable and then selects the next one if there's any.  No
> errors.

So that suggests that the problem is not in the macro definition at all, but in some function that's getting invoked by it. Maybe I
need to completely remove and re-install gnus or Aquamacs or both.

I notice, though, from my limited understanding of lisp, it appears the recorded macro still depends on the definition of the "E"
key, rather than invoking a lisp function directly. I can try re-recording it just using function calls.

> Sorry, now I'm running out of ideas...

I was out of ideas when I started this thread, so thank you for keeping this alive, and for the wealth of information you've provided
along the way.

Cheers,
-pd