From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing numerous `message' bugs.. Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:53:21 -0500 Message-ID: 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 1196956486 12594 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2007 15:54:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dave Goel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: D. Goel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 06 16:54:54 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 1J0J3n-0001Xk-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:54:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0J2j-0003j6-KL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:53:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0J2g-0003hk-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:53:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0J2b-0003dq-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:53:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0J2b-0003dm-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0J2X-0000ky-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0ECC2CF785; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:53:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B793FE0; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:53:21 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6EC166CAB3; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:53:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87myso8yrs.fsf@marie.gnufans.net> (D. Goel's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:14:47 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.71, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TRANSFR 0.11) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:84798 Archived-At: > It would rather make much more sense to code this fix into a little > function: > (defun msg (arg) > (if (null arg) > (message nil) > (message (format "%s" arg)))) 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. This will automatically fix all such code. The only problem with it is that there is code out there that calls message with a single arg and expects `message' to dequote "%%" into "%". Stefan