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Documentation error in summary at top of section 17.1, emacs.info (emacs-27 branch)

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Bob Halley <halley <at> play-bow.org>
Cc: 42492-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42492: Documentation error in summary at top of section 17.1, 
 emacs.info (emacs-27 branch)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:49:21 +0300

> From: Bob Halley <halley <at> play-bow.org>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:31:24 -0700
> 
> 
> ‘<F4>’
> ‘C-x e’
>      If a keyboard macro is being defined, end the definition;
>      otherwise, execute the most recent keyboard macro
>      (‘kmacro-end-or-call-macro’).
> 
> This suggests that <F4> and C-x e are both bound to kmacro-end-or-call-macro.  <F4> is, but C-x e is not; it is bound to kmacro-end-and-call-macro by the autoloads in kmacro.el (note "and" vs "or"):
> 
> ;;; Provide some binding for startup:
> ;;;###autoload (global-set-key "\C-x(" 'kmacro-start-macro)
> ;;;###autoload (global-set-key "\C-x)" 'kmacro-end-macro)
> ;;;###autoload (global-set-key "\C-xe" 'kmacro-end-and-call-macro)
> ;;;###autoload (global-set-key [f3] 'kmacro-start-macro-or-insert-counter)
> ;;;###autoload (global-set-key [f4] 'kmacro-end-or-call-macro)
> 
> The text further down in this section describes the bindings correctly:

Thanks, I fixed the summary table.

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