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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Fixing numerous `message' bugs..
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:18:01 -0500
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Here's an idea: make up an argument to `message' that says treat the
next argument literally.  How about t?

   (message t STRING) is equivalent to (message "%s" STRING)
   (message t nil) is equivalent to (message nil)

So in the cases that are buggy it suffices to add t as the first argument.