From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Messages - Avoiding newlines
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:47:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X8+D8JWzisNHaeCQ@scrozzle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2360gtoi7.fsf@athena.moeding.net>
On 2020-12-08 at 14:29:20 +0100,
Stefan Möding <s.moeding@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> You could remove the trailing newlines returned by pp:
>
> (message "Bounds: %s [%s, %s]"
> (replace-regexp-in-string "\n+$" "" (pp bounds)) $ma $mb)
A regular expression is a heavyweight solution to this problem. Try a
substring containing all but the trailing newline:
(substring (pp bounds t) 0 -1)
> pp (Pretty Print) is meant to be used interactively so the newline
> make sense when showing the output on a terminal.
Note also that by passing a second argument to pp, you can suppress pp's
output and make it just return the string.
HTH,
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-08 12:51 Messages - Avoiding newlines pietru
2020-12-08 13:29 ` Stefan Möding
2020-12-08 13:47 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE [this message]
2020-12-08 13:47 ` pietru
2020-12-08 14:23 ` pietru
2020-12-08 15:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-15 3:34 ` Tim Landscheidt
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