From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: daniel@bigwalter.net (Daniel Jensen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp question: format Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:22:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87fy4hbnqq.fsf@orme.bigwalter.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182685245 22045 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2007 11:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 13:40:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I2QSQ-0006JD-1X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2QSP-0003wt-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Trace: individual.net f+BjPFummT6PSNbr2yeQZgEuDoyA2hu15/tjc3sLoDtqw70ScZ X-Face: SNGmwsN&0DaHhS0!*%\@y"Wc^).,<; VsqY#}K/NJ:A Z6_>Md7x$Z9C1%BAu41M'12-8(f2{H*8OsnYv,K+y.szl1K>}{uC/>2?; k[KUiD=$}@z>odk|7Tk7i $A|{j7LhTt!:SdVp5Z, kKA247}--"-QLedxCbw|#&bh=R]Rd)kx{q+T'fG)9ayG`+\@g'3vx1Fd3bl -`3}Guvr!A"Z);"$|]CXW>YR5m"<[L User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YVTHCwyanbaBmyWPUoqeWTEbSLk= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149652 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45239 Archived-At: Aaron Maxwell writes: > Is there a way to direct the format function to use a single value > repeatedly for several positional parameters? You can use format-spec for this. (require 'format-spec) ; from Gnus (format-spec "%s/bin/scheme --band %s/lib/edwin-mechanics.com ..." '((?s . "/home/amax/opt/scmutils/mit-scheme")))