bug#66149: Mistyping a search breaks keyboard macro

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
> Cc: juri@linkov.net, 66149@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:43:56 +0300
> 
> On Sat, 2023-09-23 at 11:36 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
> > > Cc: juri@linkov.net, 66149-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> > > Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:01:32 +0300
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2023-09-23 at 11:00 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > > From: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
> > > > > Cc: 66149@debbugs.gnu.org
> > > > > Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:14:59 +0300
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 18:41 +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > I have no opinion whether 'ding' should terminate kbd macro
> > > > > > or
> > > > > > not.
> > > > > > But it's possible to customize 'isearch-wrap-pause' to 'no-
> > > > > > ding'
> > > > > > to not ding on isearch failure, then kbd macro is not
> > > > > > terminated.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Oh, thank you! So for example, having the following code in the
> > > > > init
> > > > > file works around the problem:
> > > > > 
> > > > >     (defadvice kmacro-call-macro (around align-regexp-with-
> > > > > spaces
> > > > > activate)
> > > > >       (let ((isearch-wrap-pause 'no-ding))
> > > > >         ad-do-it))
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'll post an answer about that on the emacs.stackexchange then.
> > > > 
> > > > And I'm closing the bug.
> > >  
> > > Why? The problem is still relevant. A workaround is not a fix.
> > 
> > because the motivation to make any such changes is now even lower
> > than
> > it was before, and I don't want to keep bugs open when nothing is
> > being done for them, nor ever will be.
> 
> Oh, okay, so, a fix for this closed bug will still be accepted?

We accept worthy improvements even if there's no bug at all for them,
so yes, of course.  The important thing is that the change is clean
and doesn't bring any problems with it.