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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Message #47 received at 14206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 14206 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14206: 24.3.50; doc string of `execute-kbd-macro'
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 12:17:02 +0100

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

> The doc string is misleading, especially this part: "as string of editor
> command characters".  Presumably what is meant is as a sequence of
> command chars (better - a sequence of events).  Compare the Elisp manual
> description, which explicitly mentions that MACRO can be a string or a
> vector (or a symbol with a function value).

I've now updated the doc string (mainly by copying text from the manual,
which explained things a whole lot better) in Emacs 29.

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