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From: ara@lom1.math.yale.edu (Allan Adler)
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Date: 25 Dec 89 20:22:49 GMT
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I am having a problem using GNU Emacs. Maybe someone can tell me what I
am doing wrong, if anything.  Enclosed is a sample of a file I was editing.
The file is basically a texinfo file about the primitive control sequences in
TeX. I wanted to get rid of the ,,,Top at the end of the @section lines.
So I typed ESC ESC to invoke novice and a space to get it to execute one
lisp command, which was:
(execute-kbd-macro "\C-E\M-B\C-B\C-B\C-B\C-K\C-N\C-N\C-N" 0)

At the time, I was positioned at the beginning of the line 
	@section \ (control space),,,Top

According to the GNU emacs manual, the zero at the end of the execute-kbd-macro
command is supposed to make the command repeat until it can't be repeated 
anymore, and presumably that is when it gets to the end of the file. However,
what it did instead is destroy most of the file and I don't understand how or
why. I know that if I replace the 0 by number such as 5, it quickly executes 
the command whereas with the 0 it takes forwever before destroying the file.
I was fortunately able to save the original by NOT saving the file after ^X^C.
But I would like to understand better what is and should be happening.

Can someone explain it to me ?

Allan Adler
ara@lom1.math.yale.edu
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@node \ (control space),,,Top

@section \ (control space),,,Top
@node \-(discretionary hyphen),,,Top

@section \-(discretionary hyphen),,,Top
@node \/(italic correction),,,Top

@section \/(italic correction),,,Top
@node \above(general fraction),,,Top

@section \above(general fraction),,,Top
@node \abovedisplayshortskip,,,Top

@section \abovedisplayshortskip,,,Top
@node \abovedisplayskip,,,Top

@section \abovedisplayskip,,,Top
@node \abovewithdelims,,,Top

@section \abovewithdelims,,,Top
@node \accent(general accent),,,Top

@section \accent(general accent),,,Top
@node \adjdemerits,,,Top

@section \adjdemerits,,,Top
@node \advance,,,Top

@section \advance,,,Top