long-strings

[serasset@imag.fr (Gilles Serasset)]

Hello,

I wan't to affect a variable to a long string:

(setq foo "this is a very very very very ... long string")

When the string is longer than the fred window, I'd like to have some kind
of mecanism analogous to the <tilda>newline format directive (i.e. ignore
newline character and folowing white space):

(setq foo "this is a very very very very very very very <tilda>
           very very very very very very very very very <tilda>
           very very very long string")

This is more readable.

Am I obliged to use:

(setq foo (format nil "..."))

or is there another way ?

Gilles,
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