Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound..

[Richard Stallman]

    I also think that `C-x )' is still a useful command; sometimes I want to
    just end the current macro definition with, without executing it (e.g.,
    when I'm defining the macro in a different buffer on some fake data).

I think there is a misunderstanding here.  Isn't that exactly
what C-x e will now do if you are defining a macro?