From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41571: 27.0.91; "(elisp) Interpolated Strings" is under "(elisp) Text" Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 14:33:57 +0300 Message-ID: <837dwws38a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877dwxexsh.fsf@tcd.ie> <83d06osfyw.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh9sfij1.fsf@tcd.ie> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="121318"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 41571@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 28 13:35:09 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jeGoW-000VMZ-U6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 13:35:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48706 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeGoW-0001zx-0Y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 07:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeGoQ-0001za-2g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 07:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39637) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeGoP-0004H4-Px for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 07:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeGoP-0004Ih-MZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 07:35:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 11:35:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41571 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 41571-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41571.159066565316465 (code B ref 41571); Thu, 28 May 2020 11:35:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41571) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 May 2020 11:34:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51182 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeGnd-0004HV-D1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 07:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46018) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeGnc-0004HH-7y for 41571@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 07:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58919) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeGnW-00040J-9J; Thu, 28 May 2020 07:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2080 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jeGnV-0001Mi-GO; Thu, 28 May 2020 07:34:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zh9sfij1.fsf@tcd.ie> (contovob@tcd.ie) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:181135 Archived-At: > From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" > Cc: 41571@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 11:41:54 +0100 > > While I'm at it, may I change the node name? Sure, the names aren't cast in stone, and the current one doesn't strike me as especially successful/accurate. > In fact, couldn't format-spec be documented alongside format and > format-message under "(elisp) Formatting Strings"? I thought about that as well when I read your original message, but concluded that "Formatting Strings" is already too long. We could end that node with a sentence referring to the next one, so that interested readers could continue there right away. WDYT? > Just to recap: format-spec is like format, except it allows custom > %-sequence characters, such as %z, which are substituted in a similar > way to format's %s. A common use case is to allow users to customise > different output presented to them via custom format control strings. This text is sorely missed at the beginning of the node about format-spec. Thanks.