Electricity in keyboard macros

[Fabrice Bauzac]

Hello,

I'll introduce my problem in a small example.  Create a C file (for
example "foo.c") with these contents:

struct pair thing[] = {
  val, val,
  val, val,
  val, val,
  val, val,
  val, val,
  val, val,
  val, val,
  val, val
};

Now I want to convert it into the more structural form

struct pair thing[] = {
  { val, val },
  { val, val },
  ...
};

So I use a keyboard macro:

(setq last-kbd-macro
   "\C-a\C-f\C-f{ \C-e\C-? },\C-a\C-n")

It works, but the problem is that each time the macro inserts an
(electric) '}', the point temporarily shows the matching '{' during
one second.  Imagine a case when you have to repeat the macro 60
times: it will last one minute.

I think the electric code should test for the `executing-macro'
variable before waiting one second...

Am I wrong?

-- 
fabrice bauzac
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