I was trying to build a keyboard macro to remove targets of the form <> When in org-mode, emacs hangs after C-s <. If I turn off org mode and use a simple text mode, the keyboard macro works ok. Is this a bug or am I doing something pretty dumb? Thanks, Alan emacs version: 24.3.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 org version: 8.2.6 -- Alan L Tyree http://austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:typhoon@iptel.org