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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com, 14206@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14206: 24.3.50; doc string of `execute-kbd-macro'
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:00:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvoca7u0.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83shy4x5ro.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:56:11 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> No, I think (fset 'foo "\M-:").
>
> IOW, an indirect function could produce a macro, right?
>
> In general, keyboard macros produce strings like that, which I'm sure
> you know, so I'm not sure if I understand your question.

I did not know that putting non-function stuff into the function slot of
a symbol was a thing that we do.  Actually, I don't think it is.  :-)

So I agree that this documentation is still kinda incomprehensible, even
though what it says is literally true:

MACRO can also be a vector of keyboard events.  If MACRO is a symbol,
its function definition is used.

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.

?  Or put it at the end, saying that it's deprecated...

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-29 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-15  0:33 bug#14206: 24.3.50; doc string of `execute-kbd-macro' Drew Adams
2014-02-08 11:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-08 12:11   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-08 15:45   ` Kevin Rodgers
2014-02-09  1:50     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-28 23:29       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-29  6:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-29 13:00           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-29 15:55             ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-29 16:10               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-29 19:23                 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-29  9:24         ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-29 13:02           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-30 15:56             ` Johan Bockgård
2022-03-14 11:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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