From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: WRITE & linefeed
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:37:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87liqs9fxe.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwn1r0xo.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:49:55 +0100")
Hi,
On Wed 22 Jun 2011 23:49, Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> There's a small aesthetic issue that's been bothering me for a
>> while. Namely, newlines aren't treated like other escape sequences when
>> printed with WRITE.
>>
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (write "\n")
>> "
>> "
>
> I agree, but I can imagine that there is a case for the current
> behaviour too, and it's nice to preserve back-compatibility. Emacs has
> `print-escape-newlines', and I guess we need something like that here -
> an addition to `print-options'?
Good idea. I implemented this, and will push by the time you get this
mail. The default is to escape newlines.
Andy
--
http://wingolog.org/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-04 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-19 21:27 WRITE & linefeed Ian Price
2011-06-22 21:49 ` Neil Jerram
2011-12-04 21:37 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
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