From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31314: 26.1; using % escapes in prompt for interactive Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 17:19:40 +0200 Message-ID: <875zo6uflf.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <22174.9715.409176.23270@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="261977"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 31314@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 13 17:20:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hmJol-0015wZ-Jq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2019 17:20:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56812 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmJoj-0003U8-Uv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmJoh-0003U1-Sb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hmJog-000554-JT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34317) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hmJog-00054j-Fc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmJog-0008I0-4C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:20:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 15:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 31314 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 31314-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B31314.156303118531822 (code B ref 31314); Sat, 13 Jul 2019 15:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31314) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Jul 2019 15:19:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43135 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmJoP-0008HC-IJ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:19:45 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:35692) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmJoO-0008H3-Dp for 31314@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hmJoK-0001kx-Mt; Sat, 13 Jul 2019 17:19:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <22174.9715.409176.23270@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sun, 29 Apr 2018 18:34:54 -0500") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:162903 Archived-At: "Roland Winkler" writes: > Running the following command interactively in emacs -Q > > (defun foo-num (n1 n2) > "Display numbers N1 and N2." > (interactive "nNumber 1: \nnNumber 1: %e, Number 2: ") > (message "Number 1: %9.2e, Number 2: %e" n1 n2)) > > yields the error message > > Format specifier doesn?FFE2?FF80?FF99t match argument type > > The problem is the `%e' apearing in the prompt for `interactive'. > If this is replaced by a generic `%s' everything works fine. > > The docstring of `interactive' says that the % escapes can be used > as in calls of `format', which sugests to me that these escapes > should match the data types of the arguments that have already been > read. Yet it seems that in this context the previously read > arguments are interpreted as strings. So either the docstring of > `interactive' should say that one may use %s escapes for all types > of arguments or something else should be fixed to make this work > with any type of arguments. I changed the doc string to say "%s", since that's apparently the only thing allowed currently. Extending `interactive' to allow other types may be nice, though. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no