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From: mcgill-vision!odyssee!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Francois Pinard)
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Subject: Kbd-macro problem with dired/view modes
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Date: 30 May 89 16:10:18 GMT
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In GNU Emacs 18.53.1 of Sat Mar  4 1989 on odyssee (berkeley-unix)

Inside a dired-view-file command, I execute the sequence:

	C-x ( q d v C-x )

which is supposed to:

	exit view mode and return to dired display
	mark the current file for deletion and move the cursor down
	call view mode on the new file indicated by the cursor

But q or C-c are implemented by exit-recursive-edit, which seems to
have the side effect of interrupting the macro playback.  Is that
true?  I did not find any clear documentation for this behaviour.

This looks like a bug which could have an ``explanation'' and, as one
put it, ``violates the principle of least astonishment'' :-).