Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie@sun.com> writes:

> In my case, I have a function called `describe-last-kbd-macro' that
> constructs a definition and calls message to present it and my macro
> operated on comments in TeX. Clearly I could pre-process the message
> to double the percent signs but it doesn't seem that should be
> necessary.

Why don't you use (message "%s" whatever)?

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