From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: "Michaël Cadilhac" <michael.cadilhac@lrde.org>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Percent sign in message
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:18:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85mz96c1m9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609110657.k8B6vTHW021987@ushabti.sfbay.sun.com> (Whitfield Diffie's message of "Sun\, 10 Sep 2006 23\:57\:29 -0700")
Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie@sun.com> writes:
> Sunday 10 September 2006 at 23:55
>
>> Why don't you use (message "%s" whatever)?
>
> Because I'm an idiot. Thank you.
Well, we have had enough "idiots" asking this question by now that it
would not seem amiss to mention this idiom in DOC-string and/or Elisp
manual entry. It does not seem immediately obvious.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-11 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-11 6:15 Percent sign in message Whitfield Diffie
2006-09-11 6:38 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2006-09-11 6:57 ` Whitfield Diffie
2006-09-11 7:18 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-09-11 8:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-09-11 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-11 19:57 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-11 21:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-11 21:03 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-11 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-11 22:13 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-12 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-12 15:27 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-12 15:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-19 19:39 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-09-19 21:49 ` David Kastrup
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