bug#44583: 25.3; Emacs aborts with fatal error when a keyboard macro (saved in init.el) is set to run automatically at Emacs startup (Windows 10)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: akshaychavan20031@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 23:51:01 +0530
> 
> I encountered a fatal error which caused Emacs to abort at startup
> (running as Daemon). The actions which led to this bug are as follows:
> 
> 1. I recorded a keyboard macro and inserted its elisp code in init.el
> with the M-x insert-kbd-macro function.
> 
> 2. The elisp code for the macro is
> 
> ;; This macro automatically runs remember-notes on Emacs startup and
> ;; then runs recover-this-file to recover autosave data of notes and
> ;; then enters 'yes' to the minibuffer prompt
> (fset 'remember-notes-my-macro
>    (lambda (&optional arg) "Keyboard macro." (interactive "p") 
> (kmacro-exec-ring-item (quote ([134217848 114 101 109 101 109 98 101 114 45 
> 110 111 116 101 115 return 134217848 114 101 99 111 118 101 114 45 116 104 
> 105 115 45 102 105 108 101 return 121 101 115 return] 0 "%d")) arg)))
> ;; Macro ends here
> 
> 3. I wished for this macro execute automatically when Emacs Daemon is
> launched at System startup. So I added the following line to my init.el
> 
> (remember-notes-my-macro)
> 
> 4. When Emacs is started, I get a dialog box with the following text:

Your macro attempts to prompt the user in the minibuffer, but the
daemon doesn't have a frame to do that.  What was the purpose of
invoking such a macro when you start Emacs as a daemon?