From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp question: format Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:26:24 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87tzsq6ge7.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <200706232356.06328.amax@redsymbol.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183124476 27678 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2007 13:41:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:41:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 29 15:41:16 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 1I4Gio-0003ce-SG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4Gin-0006Wn-Pp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:41:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1183123609 26274 132.183.29.121 (29 Jun 2007 13:26:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:26:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LScVG8WvBtfl/d3kE50TqCXPRu8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149759 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:45347 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers writes: > Aaron Maxwell wrote: >> >> Is there a clearer way to do this? > > (let ((scheme-home "/home/amax/opt/scmutils/mit-scheme")) > (format "%s/bin/scheme --band %s/lib/edwin-mechanics.com --heap 6000 > --library %s/lib" > scheme-home scheme-home scheme-home)) And what if I wanted to repeat it a thousand times? Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 *Joel's guide to sending attachments: 1. put all the files you want to send in a folder and archive the folder using tar, then compress it with gzip or bzip2 2. please send me .pdf, .html, or text in place of Word documents: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html *Did you know there's a FREE alternative to using word processors? http://www.edafe.org/latex/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex