From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12777: 24.2; Please support '$' in format specifications Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:12:59 +0100 Message-ID: <87a9v1ii04.fsf@rampella.terramar.selidor.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351775613 31899 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2012 13:13:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 13:13:33 +0000 (UTC) To: 12777@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 01 14:13:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TTuaY-0003bQ-2I for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:13:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTuaP-00017d-Hu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:13:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTuaH-0000ke-Ir for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTuaG-0008QH-9G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:13:21 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:60725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTuaG-0008QD-5I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TTucs-0002nf-Ia for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:16:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:16:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 12777 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.135177575710749 (code B ref -1); Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:16:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Nov 2012 13:15:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42743 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TTucn-0002nK-Eo for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:15:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50905) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TTucl-0002nD-A5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:15:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTua7-0008Oe-EK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]:40256) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTua7-0008OY-Au for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36132) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTua6-0000Lt-6Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTua1-0008Nu-1f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lev.selidor.net ([66.246.138.156]:60058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTua0-0008NH-UH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rampella.terramar.selidor.net (rampella.selidor.net [IPv6:2600:3c03:e001:1144::1]) by lev.selidor.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917E6C9CE; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 13:13:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: by rampella.terramar.selidor.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85B1F5A216B; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:12:59 +0100 (CET) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:66306 Archived-At: Hello! It'd be nice if the "format" function allowed "%m$" specifications (as long supported by glibc) so that arguments can be formatted in a different order than they were provided to the function. - It's very useful for translating format strings, e.g: (format "%d %s-%s" 2 "1KiB" "blocks") -> "2 1KiB-blocks" v some string translation... (format "%1$d %3$s de %2$d" 2 "1KiB" "bloques") -> "2 bloques de 1KiB" - It allows more flexible conversions for simple exporting templates. For instance Org mode passes an hyperlink URL and text through a customizable LaTeX format string like "\\href{%s}{%s}". Producing footnotes instead would be as simple as setting the format string to "%2$s\\footnote{%1$s}". Currently it's impossible to place the text before the URL. Thank you very much. In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-09-09 on praetorius, modified by Debian Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11204000 Configured using: `configure '--build' 'powerpc-linux-gnu' '--build' 'powerpc-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=powerpc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ca_ES.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t -- Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- https://elvil.net/