bug#59539: 29.0.50; Commands created with `insert-kbd-macro` are NOT getting repeated.

[Ramesh Nedunchezian]

On 15/12/22 12:50, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> Ramesh> (defalias 'my-cmd-a
>> Ramesh>   (kmacro "C-f C-f"))
>>
>> Ramesh> (defalias 'my-cmd-b
>> Ramesh>   (kmacro "C-b C-b"))
>>
>> Ramesh> (define-key my-kmacro-keymap (kbd "a") #'my-cmd-a)
>> Ramesh> (define-key my-kmacro-keymap (kbd "b") #'my-cmd-b)
>>
>> Hmm, with your recipe on emacs master, "<f12> b" repeats, but "<f12>
>> a" doesnʼt. I have no clue why, they call the same underlying
>> infrastructure.
> 
> Sorry, I missed this bug report.  This is because 'repeat-check-key'
> is t by default so that unrelated key sequences, for example, 'C-_'
> should not activate the repeat map for 'undo', only 'C-x u' should.
> 
> When the user types 'a', the real key from kmacro is 'C-f'.
> There is no 'f' in the keymap above, so it's ignored,
> when 'repeat-check-key' is not customized to nil.
> 
> Do you have an idea how to do the right thing and to guess the user's
> intention without checking if there are the same keys in the keymap?

`repeat-check-key` suggestion works for me.