Re: Macro suddenly broken

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>>
>>> I've been using gnus for months on Aquamacs on a Mac OS X 10.10
>>> system, but suddenly, the 'd' macro that I've designed to mark a
>>> message as expirable and move to the next one is failing with:
>>>
>>>     After 0 kbd macro iterations: undefined: Keyboard macro terminated by a
>>> command ringing the bell
>>>
>>> I'm not aware of anything that's changed in my emacs or gnus setup. I
>>> have defined a macro that use 'd' for delete/next:
>>>
>>>     D runs the command [77 77 101 101 down 103], which is a keyboard macro.
>>>
>>>     It is bound to D.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Macro: 2*M 2*e <down> g
>>>
>>>     Keyboard macro.
>>>
>>> Any clues what might be going wrong here?
>>
>> 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
>
> (I used '^' for shift arrows)
>
> The next 'e' puts the article in edit mode.
>
> 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"))

Does anyone even have a suggestion for how to trouble-shoot this? I'm not lisp-savvy, but I know that same code running on two
identical Macs should behave the same way. I'm using the same .gnus.el file, and it works correctly on one, and used to work on the
other, but now suddenly started failing. I've restarted emacs and rebooted the system several times, but no joy.

Any clues?

Thank you,
-pd