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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:51 -0500
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Subject: Re: emacs 23.1.1 macro behavior and name completion
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Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/13/2009 9:57 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
>> Emacs 23.1.1 (Cygwin 1.7) stores spaces literally inside emacs macros
>> instead of using the space as a name completion command. In the
>> older emacs (Cygwin 1.5) this is not the case. The stored macro
>> behaved exactly like the keystrokes were originally typed
>> interactively. Is this a "feature" of the new emacs? Does this emacs
>> version do the same thing on a native Linux PC? i.e., does this have
>  > anything to do with Cygwin itself?
> 
> This almost certainly has nothing to do with cygwin.  There have been 
> many changes in emacs since version 21 (which you were using before), 
> including changes in how completion is done and changes involving 
> keyboard macros.  Use the help and info facilities within emacs, or 
> browse the NEWS files in /usr/share/emacs/23.1/etc/.  Further questions 
> on this should go to one of the emacs lists unless you find evidence 
> that the issue is related to cygwin.
> 
> Ken

However! Given the various issues people have seen around the
setting of LANG and the cygwin 1.7 changes in handling locale,
I would also recommend looking into that. Try setting LANG=C
and comparing with LANG=C.UTF-8 and LANG=en_US.UTF8 ...

Ken is probably right, but this is easy to check.

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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