Re: This is a simple question

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

Stephen Leake wrote:

> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> writes:
>>Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>>Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg@home.com> wrote:
>>>:>>> 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.
>>>I'm not sure if I understand this. If it is the last keyboard
>>>macro you want to call, then C-x e does this, repeatedly if you
>>>want...
>>
>>Let me explain:  If you collect a macro with 3 steps in it, and
>>you execute it with C-x e, then this executes the 3 steps of the
>>macro (so far, so good). You then do C-x z, and it again executes
>>the equivalent of C-x e, which performs the 3 steps again. This
>>part is OK also. If you then now just do "z" (to further "repeat"),
>>only the last step of the 3-step macro is executed.  This is
>>where it falls down.
> 
> Ok. So keep doing C-x e. Or do C-u 5 C-x e to repeat it 5 times. Or
> bind call-last-kbd-macro to a function key, say F3. Then you have a
> single keystroke for repeating the last macro.
> 
> You seem to be saying "since I can't repeat a macro with a single
> keystroke, I won't use Emacs". That seems a very narrow view!

But.. but, I _am_ using Emacs. Just not the same flavour as you. The
other thing that this does say, is that this particular function is
extremely useful to me. This was something that was well recognized
by Prime's Emacs, which goes back to my first post on this subject.

Doing C-x e to repeat is much too slow. Binding it to F3 to compensate
for the weakness is not only a hack, its also inconvenient to reach,
and is a form of editor "modality". It works, but seems more like a
last resort to me.
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