Re: Macro suddenly broken

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

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:

What does "nothing" mean?  I guess "the key sequence is not finished",
right?

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

Anyway.  By default, `gnus-summary-put-mark-as-expirable' is not bound
to a key, at least not in the current Gnus version.  Is it possible that
you've bound it, e.g., in ~/.gnus.el, on the machine where the macro
works?

Well, what you can do of course is define your keyboard macro in such a
way that it doesn't depend on key bindings, that is, the keyboard macro
would do

  M-x gnus-summary-put-mark-as-expirable RET...

instead of

  M M e e...

Bye,
Tassilo