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    > I'm not convinced this change is a good one. What if your macro 
    > involves a call-process call to an external program that interacts 
    > with Emacs via the keyboard?

    clipboard, of course, not keyboard.

That must be very rare--are there any programs that could be invoked
this way that would use the clipboard?  Normally such programs
would communicate thru files.