From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Need `format' with position numbers Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 01:57:39 +0300 Message-ID: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29640"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 16 00:59:36 2022 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 1oYxpX-0007Wp-DA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:59:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60350 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oYxpV-0004Am-UC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oYxox-0004AZ-2C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:54227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oYxot-0002d0-94 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:58:57 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.83.248.126]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5AC7.000000006323AE0B.00000EE7; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:58:19 -0700 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=support1@rcdrun.com; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_PASS=-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: 2.1.29 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:139498 Archived-At: In Lisp and the command `format' does not have positioning number, order of arguments is static: (format "%s %s %s" name link description) and I would like to have positioning such as in PostgreSQL: "WHERE link = $2 AND name = $1" name link This is because arbitrary formats for command `format' may come in the system I am building, it is not predictable how users would like to place name, link, description in various markup languages. Maybe there exists different `format' command that uses position numbers in some package? Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/