From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elisp question: format
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:00:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ir9dhgl0.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2558.1182668174.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Aaron Maxwell <amax@redsymbol.net> writes:
> Is there a way to direct the format function to use a single value
> repeatedly for several positional parameters?
No. This is not Common Lisp!
Well, you could use emacs-cl:
(load "load-cl")
(FORMAT nil "First: ~A ; Second: ~:*~A" 42)
--> "First: 42 ; Second: 42"
Yep, not only do I have (require 'cl) first thing in my ~/.emacs, but
I also have (load "load-cl") next...
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2007-06-24 9:00 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2007-06-24 11:22 ` elisp question: format Daniel Jensen
2007-06-25 8:59 ` Aaron Maxwell
2007-06-24 6:56 Aaron Maxwell
2007-06-28 4:39 ` Kevin Rodgers
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2007-06-29 13:26 ` Joel J. Adamson
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