From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "D Goel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (message (format "File %s" file)) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:46:15 -0400 Message-ID: <87r7c9vi6g.fsf@gnufans.net> References: <873bop978p.fsf@gnufans.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125528731 4833 80.91.229.2 (31 Aug 2005 22:52:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:52:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 01 00:52:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAbQE-00025M-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAbT1-0000DG-VQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAbSQ-000053-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAbSM-0008UZ-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAbSM-0008U3-Gm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EAbPu-0007vX-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EAbLD-0000On-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:45:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 24-197-153-112.dhcp.gsvl.ga.charter.com ([24.197.153.112]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:45:59 +0200 Original-Received: from deego by 24-197-153-112.dhcp.gsvl.ga.charter.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:45:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24-197-153-112.dhcp.gsvl.ga.charter.com X-Face: #5@=vrmx5t3mZaPY8(mR.n+V#:%4NW7j5A&^}@lGp2rK; CQ4%iH1v'gh/^A)w5*6c&R2(P' 4+seYDq8OK'LPI/C(C^A*w|f*t+8, 'T8b#_0~h3!A7GoVroE[cr0Fb'A0%SdU|Lk@gBV&1vA User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wSPFOrZa4frDmfxb/53Kp90ce/4= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42538 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > In the past I suggested to make (message ARG) automatically behave like > (message "%s" ARG) and AFAIK the only prolem with that was a few rare case > like (message "Compiling list...( 0%%)") and those problems are easy to fix. ah, nice or it could do this: (message arg) behaves like (message "%s" arg) only if the arg has no %%. that way, one wouldn't have to break backward compatibility... .. or one could just provide an extra (msg) DG http://gnufans.net/ --