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Joerg Schuster <js@cis.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> (defun my_macro (string) (interactive "syour argument: ") (message
>> "bla %s blo" string))
>
> This prints "bla [argument] blo" in the mini buffer. I wanted Emacs to
> print it in the active (?) buffer, i.e. in the buffer from which I
> call the function. 

Replace the (message ) function with (insert ):

  (insert (format "bla %s blo" string))

HTH - Joakim



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