From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "André A. Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Meaning of "~@" in the format procedure
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:34:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ2HJaGOoB=GRwdDohA-CUWwKRW3URLfKiiiB+urhBHd0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ka3zco4.fsf@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 18:16, André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see that "~@" is used frequently in Guix' codebase in the format
> procedure but I don't understand what it does. (info "(guile) Formatted
> Output") didn't help much.
I think it is for multilines.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> emacs "$@" --eval 'a-sexp'
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
It is for a shell. It means all the arguments.
Hope that helps,
simon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-29 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-29 14:20 Meaning of "~@" in the format procedure André A. Gomes
2021-09-29 16:24 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-10-04 17:34 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-29 16:34 ` zimoun [this message]
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