format directives

• To: SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com
• Subject: format directives
• From: Steve Haflich <smh@franz.com>
• Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 11:20:56 PDT
• Cc: jcma@reagan.ai.mit.edu, clim@BBN.COM
• In-Reply-To: Scott McKay's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:12-0400 <19920903171238.5.SWM@SUMMER.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

   From: Scott McKay <SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com>

       The Lisp machine has open and close horseshoe as format directives to make
       text style specifications easy.  Is there any thought on this subject for CLIM?

   Not to my knowledge.  I hope that we CLIM implementors all resist the
   temptation to mess around with FORMAT directives.  This is certainly
   good material for a CLIM library contribution, though.

       I am about to use ~+ and ~- because they are about the only unused characters
       that make any menonic sense.

There's no portable way for CLIM or a library contribution portably to
extend format string syntax.  The strategy of shadowing format with an
extended version might make other implementation-dependent extensions
unavailable.

There is a portable way to approximate what's wanted using the `new'
~/.../ format directive -- something like ~/clim:push-font/ -- but it
would be syntactically turgid in practice.


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