On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 10:44:09PM +0100, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > writes: > > > (message "my heading: %s" (prin1-to-string any)) > > Or equivalent > > (message "my heading: %S" any) > > , no? Indeed. Recommended reading "4.7 Formatting Strings" in the Emacs Lisp manual (in the Intertubes here [1]). Cheers [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Formatting-Strings.html - t