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  > If Emacs extends `format', I'd vote for it to follow Common Lisp.

That could have many meanings.  I hope you don't mean switching from %
to ~ to introduce special constructs.  That would be extremely painful
and I am firmly against it.

If what you mean is not an incompatible change in Emacs, then I have
no opinion about it a priori.

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