Re: Expected macro behavior (was: Macros don't work in Dired)

[David desJardins]

procmail@freemail.hu (deja8501) writes:
> My original bug report was sent because I thought that the inability
> to record incomplete event sequences (when not all input is available
> for a function invoked by a macro) is a bug, that is I cannot record a
> macro for e.g. Dired which offers a default file name when renaming
> ("Rbackup" or something like that).

I don't know why you think you can't do that.  I have no problem
defining and using a macro which uses the Dired 'R' command to rename a
file.  I did:

C-x ( R f o o return C-x )

followed by:

C-x e

with exactly the desired effect.

I use similar macros often.

                                        David desJardins