dot-mode.el 1.11

dot-mode.el is a minor mode for GNU Emacs / XEmacs that emulates the . command in vi. The original version was written in 1995 by James Gillespie.
I took over maintenance in 2000 and did a much needed update to code portability and also added some nice features. Much of the code was re-written, but the original design was sound and remains intact. dot-mode.el project is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Why was it written?
For those of you not in the know, the . command in vi simply repeats the last edit made. In my experience, this is/has been the biggest feature that vi users claim they just cant live without. After having developed this feature for emacs, Id have to say I agree with them.
dot-mode.el was written so that vi users no longer have an excuse for not switching to an emacs variant. Emacs is, of course, superior in every other way...
Main features:
- New keybinding C-. emulates . command in vi.
- Calls to extended commands (M-x some-command) are also captured.
- There is an "override" mode that allows you to record keystrokes that dont change the buffer.
- You can specify whether dot-mode remembers "undo" commands.
- dot-mode can either share a single command buffer between all windows with dot-mode on, or each window can have its own command buffer.
- You can copy the saved keystrokes into the keyboard macro.
- Works on GNU Emacs (including NT Emacs) and XEmacs.
Version restrictions:
- Certain interactive commands such as query-replace or query-replace-regexp are not recorded properly. There is no plan to fix this. You can still record a keyboard macro to capture these types of functions.
Enhancements:
- A bug where dot-mode would give an error if you used dot-mode-override to record a [right] and then tried to call dot-mode-execute was fixed.