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author | Kim F. Storm <[email protected]> | 2006-09-11 08:26:47 +0000 |
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committer | Kim F. Storm <[email protected]> | 2006-09-11 08:26:47 +0000 |
commit | 7bd5bcfba3b6c8f1bfb9c4501e3d9dae4f58a5ca (patch) | |
tree | 0657366e4f69e5094d0bd00f94b82a2a509dc21c | |
parent | 83279b3e9c2cbd28a3f6615a65a232491ad21d4f (diff) |
(Fmessage): Recommend using (message "%s" ...).
-rw-r--r-- | src/editfns.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/editfns.c b/src/editfns.c index dce727611b..71b518acb7 100644 --- a/src/editfns.c +++ b/src/editfns.c @@ -3178,6 +3178,9 @@ The message also goes into the `*Messages*' buffer. The first argument is a format control string, and the rest are data to be formatted under control of the string. See `format' for details. +Note: Use (message "%s" VALUE) to print the value of expressions and +variables to avoid accidentally interpreting `%' as format specifiers. + If the first argument is nil or the empty string, the function clears any existing message; this lets the minibuffer contents show. See also `current-message'. |