[climacs-devel] keyboard macros, display protocol

[Robert Strandh]

Christophe Rhodes writes:
 > > 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. 
 > 
 > I don't think this can be right.  If you do that, then sequences of
 > commands (such as, say "Insert Open Paren" followed by "Up List") will
 > do different things depending on whether they are executed by
 > keystrokes or by keyboard macros.  Instead, I think that the syntax
 > must be updated after each command.

I would prefer that this case be handled by having the commands that
require the syntax to be up to date explicitly call whatever function
updates the syntax.

-- 
Robert Strandh

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