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Subject: Re: append-to-file & write-region from kbd-macro
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:19:25 -0500
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    So... it DOES appear that append-to-file can be called from within an
    interactive keyboard macro definition.

Yes, it can.

    2) write-region can not have START passed a string from the
    mini-buffer and  no new functionality is extended to the Command
    write-region (at least from within a kbd macro definition) despite
    what appear to be claims by the manual otherwise, e.g.:

I do not understand.  What is the bug?

    ''if START is a string, then that string is written to the file,
    instead of any buffer contents, and END is ignored."

That refers to calling the function from Lisp.
It has nothing to do with interactive calls.