From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Messages - Avoiding newlines Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:34:12 +0000 Organization: http://www.tim-landscheidt.de/ Message-ID: <87tusnhhe3.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.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="19296"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gc+hOMwEFk0GenymAsWoRlBfIPg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 15 04:34:41 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 1kp16n-0004w3-85 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2020 04:34:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46732 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kp16m-0006gR-Aj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:34:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kp16U-0006gI-1b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:34:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kp16S-0007uz-Ew for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:34:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kp16P-0004RQ-6b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2020 04:34:17 +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: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, 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:126385 Archived-At: pietru@caramail.com wrote: > 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 $mb) > Result: > Bounds: (78 . 84) > [78, 84] Not strictly what you ask for, but for "simple" data struc- tures, the "%S" format might fit your requirements: | ELISP> (let* | ((bounds '(78 . 84)) | ($ma (car bounds)) | ($mb (cdr bounds))) | (message "Bounds: %S [%s, %s]" bounds $ma $mb)) ^^ | "Bounds: (78 . 84) [78, 84]" | ELISP> In this specific case, it is equivalent to "%s"; but this is different when for example you are printing (structures con- taining) strings. Tim