From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Andy Wingo" <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Truncated print
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:52:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bphc9i9s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NPbB4-00045m-3S@cvs.savannah.gnu.org> (Andy Wingo's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:27:54 +0000")
Howdy!
"Andy Wingo" <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> commit b8596c08ac2ef2201c1e8559ac5f4d62ebde3d91
> Author: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
> Date: Tue Dec 29 13:26:41 2009 +0100
>
> add ~@y truncated printing directive to format
>
> * doc/ref/misc-modules.texi (Formatted Output): Add documentation for
> the new ~@y format directive.
> (Pretty Printing): Add documentation for truncated-write.
>
> * module/ice-9/format.scm (format): Add ~@y, for doing a truncated
> print. Also, allow both ~y variants to take a width parameter.
Nice! Can you please add test cases, e.g., based on the examples added
to the manual?
> +(truncated-print "The quick brown fox" #:width 10) (newline)
> +@print{} "The quick brown..."
I think it’d be nice to default to ‘HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS’ (U+2026).
Perhaps the ellipsis string could be a keyword parameter?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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2010-01-02 23:52 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2010-01-03 12:22 ` Truncated print Andy Wingo
2010-01-05 0:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-01-05 9:01 ` Andy Wingo
2010-01-08 20:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
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