From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Goel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing numerous `message' bugs.. Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:25 -0500 Message-ID: <87ve7b4xt6.fsf@marie.gnufans.net> References: <87myso8yrs.fsf@marie.gnufans.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196956909 14216 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2007 16:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dave Goel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 06 17:01:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0JAf-0004cA-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:01:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0JAO-0000zc-Gi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0JAK-0000wF-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0JAI-0000sJ-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0JAI-0000s5-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mtao02.charter.net ([209.225.8.187]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0JAI-0003Tm-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from aarprv02.charter.net ([10.20.200.72]) by mtao02.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.03.00 201-2186-126-20070710) with ESMTP id <20071206160129.GOOM27011.mtao02.charter.net@aarprv02.charter.net>; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:01:29 -0500 Original-Received: from marie.gnufans.net ([66.168.196.121]) by aarprv02.charter.net with ESMTP id <20071206160129.QGT495.aarprv02.charter.net@marie.gnufans.net>; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:01:29 -0500 Original-Received: from deego by marie.gnufans.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1J0JAD-0006um-00; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:25 -0500 X-Face: #5@=vrmx5t3mZaPY8(mR.n+V#:%4NW7j5A&^}@lGp2rK; CQ4%iH1v'gh/^A)w5*6c&R2(P' 4+seYDq8OK'LPI/C(C^A*w|f*t+8, 'T8b#_0~h3!A7GoVroE[cr0Fb'A0%SdU|Lk@gBV&1vA In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:53:21 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Chzlrs: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84799 Archived-At: > > Another solution is to change `message' so that if it has only one > argument it behaves as if it had received a "%s" format string. (provided that that argument is non-nil) > This will automatically fix all such code. The only problem with it is > that there is .. (in principle).. > code out there that calls message with a single arg and expects > `message' to dequote "%%" into "%". Indeed. We should leave `message' itelf alone.