GNU bug report logs - #14206
24.3.50; doc string of `execute-kbd-macro'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:39:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com, 14206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14206: 24.3.50; doc string of `execute-kbd-macro'
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:10:44 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Perhaps something like
>>
>> If MACRO is a symbol, and its function definition is a string or a
>> vector of keyboard events, its function definition is used.
>
> But the function definition is used unconditionally.

True.  So perhaps just a usage note?  "This is useful for keyboard
macros stored as function definitions" or something?  Because as it is
now, the natural interpretation is that it's generally useful for
functions.  And it isn't.

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