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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	visuweshm@gmail.com, luangruo@yahoo.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Make format-spec accept a function as the substitution
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 05:59:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=GdqDw7SURWXm--sHWoV2qJd5zODbx9ssHz8-KsAQxZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmtai9x8p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Code should be quoted with `lambda` (which you run with `funcall` or
> `apply`), not with `quote` (for which you need to use `eval`).
>
> So we should aim for a source code of the form:
>
>     (format-spec "Go to line %n in file %f %g"
>                  `((?n . ,(λ () (read-number "Number: ")))
>                    (?g . "now")
>                    (?f . ,(λ () (read-file-name "File: ")))))

I agree, which is why that's what my patch does.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-29 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20220916204419.B124FC00872@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-09-17  2:00   ` master fe7c015b20: Support XFCE in wallpaper.el Po Lu
2022-09-17 18:03     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-18  1:18       ` Po Lu
2022-09-18  2:13         ` Po Lu
2022-09-18  4:48         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-18  5:15           ` Po Lu
2022-09-18 14:44             ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-19  4:49               ` Po Lu
2022-09-19  6:06                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-19  7:24                   ` Po Lu
2022-09-19  8:40                     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-19  8:52                       ` Po Lu
2022-09-19 17:46                         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-19 18:05                         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-19 18:59                           ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-19 20:16                           ` Tomas Hlavaty
2022-09-19 21:19                             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-20  6:16                               ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-20  2:32                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-20  2:43                               ` Po Lu
2022-09-20  6:25                                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-20  8:22                                   ` Po Lu
2022-09-19  7:23                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-26 19:42         ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-26 21:01           ` Stephen Berman
2022-09-26 22:46             ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-27  7:17               ` Stephen Berman
2022-09-27  7:45                 ` Po Lu
2022-09-27 13:42                   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-27  0:33             ` Po Lu
2022-09-27  5:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-27  6:13             ` Po Lu
2022-09-27  6:45               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-27  7:50                 ` Po Lu
2022-09-27  7:56                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-27  8:31                     ` Po Lu
2022-09-27  7:21           ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-27  7:42             ` Po Lu
2022-09-27  7:55               ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-27  8:35                 ` Po Lu
2022-09-27 18:33                   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-28  0:34                     ` Po Lu
2022-09-27 13:57             ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-27 15:43               ` Visuwesh
2022-09-27 16:19                 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-27 16:39                   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-27 16:40                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-27 17:01                     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-27 17:14                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-27 18:02                         ` Make format-spec accept a function as the substitution Stefan Kangas
2022-09-29  6:57                           ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-29 12:36                             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-29 12:59                               ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-09-29 15:02                               ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-29 16:34                                 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-29 16:53                                   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-29 17:06                                     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-29 16:56                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-29 15:09                               ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-29 16:34                                 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-29 14:16             ` master fe7c015b20: Support XFCE in wallpaper.el Stefan Kangas

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