From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Messages - Avoiding newlines Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:32:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87sg8gjoua.fsf@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26876"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:zH/hyzEeiUvhUBCvNXDwd89NG60= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 08 16:33:54 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1kmezy-0006rn-K6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:33:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60912 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmezx-0001ff-Fo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:33:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmeyX-0001eE-4k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:32:25 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:42380 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmeyV-0005mM-JG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:32:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kmeyR-0004oy-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:32:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126181 Archived-At: pietru@caramail.com writes: > I would like to print some values but I am getting a new-line > after (pp bounds). Haw may I avoid it? > > (message "Bounds: %s [%s, %s]" (pp bounds) $ma $mb) `pp' prints the output by itself. You want `pp-to-string' when you want to use the result(s) in `message'. But yes: for simple values using `pp' doesn't make a difference. All it does is more or less adding some newlines to make large structures more readable. Michael.