Re: elisp question: format

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Aaron Maxwell <amax@redsymbol.net> writes:
> Is there a way to direct the format function to use a single value
> repeatedly for several positional parameters?

No. This is not Common Lisp!

Well, you could use emacs-cl:

(load "load-cl")
(FORMAT nil "First: ~A ; Second: ~:*~A" 42)
--> "First: 42 ; Second: 42"


Yep, not only do I have (require 'cl) first thing in my ~/.emacs, but
I also have (load "load-cl") next...

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