Re: Help needed from XEmacs gurus (was: Invalid format character: ?m)

[Kai Großjohann]

Pete Forman <address@hidden> writes:

> Good question.  Here's what I see on XEmacs 21.4.8
>
> (let ((method "scp") (host "alicia") (path "/tmp/teste"))
>    (list (cons ?m method)
>          (cons ?h host)
>          (cons ?p path)))
> ((?m . "scp") (?h . "alicia") (?p . "/tmp/teste"))
>
>
> (let ((method "scp") (host "alicia") (path "/tmp/teste"))
>    (format-spec tramp-make-tramp-file-user-nil-format
>                 (list (cons ?m method)
>                       (cons ?h host)
>                       (cons ?p path))))
> "/[scp/alicia]/tmp/teste"

Could you put that code in a file, byte-compile it, and then execute
the byte-compiled code?  I hope it's still the same then.

(Maybe two defuns are necessary so that you can see what's
happening.  Or you call message followed by sit-for...)

kai
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