Re: Keyboard macro and regexp syntax search

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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> Here's a key sequence which searches a whitespace character with a non-
> whitespace character after it and moves right to terminate the search
> there (just an example):
>
> M-C-s   \s-\S- <right>
>
>
> According to the macro editor it is recorded like this:
>
> ;; Keyboard Macro Editor.  Press C-c C-c to finish; press C-x k RET to
> cancel.
> ;; Original keys: M-C-s \ s \ S <right>
>
> Command: last-kbd-macro
> Key: none
>
> Macro:
>
> M-C-s                   ;; isearch-forward-regexp
> \                       ;; self-insert-command
> s                       ;; self-insert-command
> \                       ;; self-insert-command
> S                       ;; self-insert-command
> <right>                   ;; forward-char-nomark
>
>
>
> The dash (-) character is missing after the syntax matcher (\s and
> \S), so the macro doesn't work at playback. Is it a bug?
>
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE


Looks like it, but please try starting from

  emacs -Q

If the problem persists then report it as a bug.