Re: Macro suddenly broken

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

On 8/18/15 10:10 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>
> Binding keys to vectors of keys is not the best way to persist keyboard
> macros.  Basically, I'd recommend you re-record your macro using
>
> 1. Start recording with <f3>.
>
> 2. Perform the actions you want to record, e.g., expire the current
>    message and move on to the next one.  You can use key bindings for
>    that but also the menu or tool bar or M-x ...
>
> 3. Finish recording of the macro with <f4>.
>
> 4. Give the last recently recorded keyboard macro a name, e.g.,
>    `pd/gnus-expire-and-move-on' using `C-x C-k n'
>   
> 5. Open your ~/.emacs, move point to some empty line and do ` M-x
>    insert-kbd-macro RET pd/gnus-expire-and-move-on RET'.  This will
>    insert a command definition for the given keyboard macro.  Then you
>    can bind that command rather than a plain key sequence in your
>    `pm/alter-*-map' functions which I guess are run in
>    `gnus-summary-mode-hook' and `gnus-article-mode-hook'.
>

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

Ah, well.

Thank you!
-pd

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