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From: jai-bholeki <jai-bholeki@protonmail.com>
To: "tomas@tuxteam.de" <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Elisp: Using message to print two numbers
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2020 21:41:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Wzzio773q2V1LRzvLNeKQ47oViUnP7tPk7262Cu2r--Qs4UobTXNq-ThfOOHCPihQZnqHw5t4sNH0YYpyDa4f5LMm9EBpRq3MIddZOW4eM0=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201101212022.GB6001@tuxteam.de>


‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Sunday, 1 November 2020 22:20, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 08:46:19PM +0000, jai-bholeki via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>
> > Any ideas on how to print two integers 'beg' and 'end'
> > Have used the following to no avail
> > (message "Prg-Bounds: %d %d" Beg End)
>
> "to no avail" isn't an Emacs error message ;-P

You will in a minute ;)

>
> Uh. I mean: this works for me, put into the right context
> (the variables Beg and End have to be bound to two integers
> and some other things). For me:
>
> (let ((Beg 15)
> (End 16))
> (message "Prog-Bounds: %d %d" Beg End))
>
> issues the message
>
> Prog-Bounds: 15 16
>
> What happens in your case?

Problem starts when making a subtraction

         (let*
            ( (Beg 20)
              (End 30)
              (Length (- Beg End))
              (message "Region: (%d, %d) %s %d" Beg End "Length" Length)
            )
         )


>
> Cheers
>
> -   t





  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-01 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-01 20:46 Elisp: Using message to print two numbers jai-bholeki via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 21:20 ` tomas
2020-11-01 21:41   ` jai-bholeki [this message]
2020-11-01 21:48     ` tomas

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