Re: Percent sign in message

[David Kastrup]

Whitfield Diffie <address@hidden> writes:

>                               Sunday  10 September 2006  at 23:55
>
>> Why don't you use (message "%s" whatever)?
>
>     Because I'm an idiot.  Thank you.

Well, we have had enough "idiots" asking this question by now that it
would not seem amiss to mention this idiom in DOC-string and/or Elisp
manual entry.  It does not seem immediately obvious.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum