Keyboard macros misfiring

[Peter Seibel]

Open a new file and insert the following text upto and including the
line "This is a test" an the following blank line.

1. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
2. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
3. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
4. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
5. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
6. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
7. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
8. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
9. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
10. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.

This is a test

Then copy that chunk enough times that at least one "This is a test"
is off the bottom of the buffer. Now go to the top of the buffer and
record the following keyboard macro:

C-s                     ;; isearch-forward
This                    ;; self-insert-command * 4
C-a                     ;; move-beginning-of-line
C-k                     ;; kill-line
C-x C-o                 ;; delete-blank-lines

Then execute this macro repeatedly. For me it works fine until it
tries to search for one of the This is a tests that not visible off
the bottom of the buffer--it'll jump to some other line and then
delete it instead which you can tell from the numbers at the
beginnings of the "Now is the time" lines.

-Peter

In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2005-03-13 on xeon
Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40200000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.iso885915
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  erc-services-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  erc-irccontrols-mode: t
  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x ( C-s T h i s C-a C-k C-x C-o C-x ) C-x e C-x e 
e e e e e e <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> C-x e M-< 
C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-w 
C-y <return> <return> C-p C-p T h i s SPC i s SPC a 
SPC t e s t C-n <return> C-SPC M-< C-w C-y C-x C-f 
C-g M-x e <backspace> r e p <tab> o r t <tab> <return> 
K e y b o r d SPC <up> a c <M-backspace> C-g M-x <up> 
<return>

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