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Looks like a bug (whether documentation or code) as
read-kbd-macro
still claims to return a string if possible, but nowadays it forcibly returns a vector. PleaseM-x report-emacs-bug
to get that clarified.You could extract a string of characters from the vector:
But if you look at the code for
read-kbd-macro
you'll see that it calls this:Hence the string value you wanted is coming from
kbd
:There are of course arguments you can pass to
kbd
which won't return a string, but that would always have been the case for your code, and presumably you're not attempting to use any of those.