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> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> The first question is whether this is a bug: should (read-kbd-macro
> "mode-line" t) return [mode-line]?

I don't think so; as the lispref documentation for read-kbd-macro
says, it is roughly an inverse of `key-description', and

 M-: (key-description [mode-line]) RET

  ==> "<mode-line>"

> To complicate things, I see that (read-kbd-macro "<mode-line>"), with or
> without the second arg, returns [mode-line].

This is correct.

I think we should close this bug.