Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> schrieb am So., 2. Juli 2017 um
16:31 Uhr:

> On 2017-07-02 10:02, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> > (I am using the numbered fields that Philipp Stephani implemented in
> June.)
>
> Hm, this patch went through?  I thought there were still disagreements
> about the syntax.
>

Not that I'm aware of. The syntax is pretty much fixed by the behavior of
GNU printf.


>
> Did we consider introducing a new formatting function (with a polyfill for
> older Emacsen), rather than this %n$ syntax?
>

No, there's no need for that: the syntax extension is backward-compatible.