Re: This is a simple question

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

"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!

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