Re: This is a simple question

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>]

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

> Pascal Obry wrote:
>> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>>> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> GNU-Emacs could be vastly improved by make one single change:
>>>> that is, support the ^C function that Prime's EMACS provided. ^C was
>>>> a "repeat last function" binding. It would repeat the last keystroke,
>>>> last macro, or last "whatever was done".
>>>>
>>> On GNU Emacs, the command is called 'repeat', and it's bound to 'C-x 
>>> z' by default, and for subsequent invocations of this command, 'z' is 
>>> sufficient.

Well, I tried it and its functionality is either broken, or left
wanting. What I found was that while it works good for simple things
(even their "complex repeat"), it did not work well for repeating
the last executed macro. The first time was OK, but (the broken part is)
then the "z" to repeat it subsequently would only execute the last
function performed within the keyboard macro. I think this is because
GNU emacs expands the macro (C-x e) and then plays it out as if it were
then typed in (ie. a "buffer trick".)

What I had hoped for was that the
same action would be completely repeated (C-x e). Instead,
what it repeated was
the last action within the macro that was played back.

So close, and yet so far... I won't discard MicroEMACS yet. :<
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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