[climacs-devel] keyboard macros, display protocol

[Robert Strandh]

Christophe Rhodes writes:
 > 
 > The below implements keyboard macros with the numeric argument.  It
 > seems to work, up to a point.
 > 
 > The point at which it stops working is if the keyboard macro changes
 > the number of lines in the display, and indeed the problem can be seen
 > without this patch: start climacs, type (say), abcdefg, put point at
 > the start of line, and do
 >   C-x ( C-f RET C-f RET C-f RET C-x ) C-x e
 > (BOOM).
 > 
 > The reason that this is a disaster is because we have multiple
 > commands, multiple update-syntaxes, and multiple clear-modifies
 > between successive redisplays, and this plays havoc with the cache
 > maintained in climacs pane.lisp.

That should not be the case.  The syntax should be updated and the
modification cleared only after each user interaction.  Executing a
command as a result of executing a keyboard macro should not update
the syntax. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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