From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: WRITE & linefeed Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:37:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87liqs9fxe.fsf@pobox.com> References: <m3ei2pmrze.fsf@Kagami.home> <87fwn1r0xo.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323096124 10315 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2011 14:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org To: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 05 15:41:58 2011 Return-path: <guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1RXZjx-0006Ye-Hk for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:41:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35853 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1RXZjw-0004RJ-W7 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:41:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40059) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <wingo@pobox.com>) id 1RXZjo-0004Ep-8n for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <wingo@pobox.com>) id 1RXZjf-00056R-Q4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:41:48 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([74.115.168.62]:64465 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <wingo@pobox.com>) id 1RXZjf-00056N-Jv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:41:39 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC91D7DC5; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 09:41:38 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=5lCdRzkXibGb6wih/k2aJ/A0VGU=; b=gfnfjD sfMQSARkkB6cXKH/ivSWkSk/ws3G0a839M1qOm2TCQnODpBJRd+fyzG3/YBAOMCZ vot1MqG+txT+dIzz37Mf7nZM0oAs9XtHs8Mf+0xFNjL/Ja0aaLY9bWtYrrvn388L H8oia3FxUSSmdfQ8S9N3xQaEecuGG4iWwz2Bw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Ghs/T2AoS72yMGG2tJ8aUSsp7LvpnADY YLY3DOuxO1+qyHUduthkQzM1rcYGX2mDfGdGwVMc7Tpu9Qewc7ugQDTUfMGWh+qt HVcndMoAtxkYc3cSeQZibCI5Y1+oQNaqqB7jexI+6GnkHqBUKvL4RO+Nf681b3IA xEj7NFl+aHg= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B957DC4; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 09:41:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from badger (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 253F17DB1; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 09:41:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87fwn1r0xo.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:49:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 3CEF58B6-1F4F-11E1-A8FC-65B1DE995924-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 74.115.168.62 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" <guile-devel.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/guile-devel>, <mailto:guile-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel> List-Post: <mailto:guile-devel@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:guile-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel>, <mailto:guile-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12964 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/12964> 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/