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bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n"
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n" |
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Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:53:39 -0800 |
> And yes, Custom should probably try to wrap lines somehow in
> such cases (e.g. pretty-print the sexp).
Any chance this pretty-printing will actually get done?
The utility goes well beyond `\n' in strings.
Just now I created a defcustom whose :type is
(repeat (restricted-sexp
:tag "Keymap"
:match-alternatives (keymapp 'nil)))
And you cannot believe how ugly such a value is, not to mention how error-prone
editing it would be! Regardless of what one might think of trying to use a
keymap value this way, the point is that any non-trivial Lisp sexp needs to be
pretty-printed.
`restricted-sexp can be a quick-and-dirty substitute for defining the widgets
needed to get a new :type construct. But it is rendered pretty unusable without
(at least) pretty-printing.
There are likely to be plenty of Lisp values for which pretty-printing would
help. Any chance you will add this to the Emacs TO-DO list?
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Drew Adams, 2010/12/01
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/01
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Drew Adams, 2010/12/01
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/06
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Drew Adams, 2010/12/06
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Lennart Borgman, 2010/12/06
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Drew Adams, 2010/12/06
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Lennart Borgman, 2010/12/06
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Drew Adams, 2010/12/06
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/06
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Drew Adams, 2010/12/06
- bug#7524: 24.0.50; backquote converts newlines in strings to "\n", Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/06