Re: WRITE & linefeed

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

On Wed 22 Jun 2011 23:49, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Ian Price <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> There's a small aesthetic issue that's been bothering me for a
>> while. Namely, newlines aren't treated like other escape sequences when
>> printed with WRITE.
>>
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (write "\n")
>> "
>> "
>
> I agree, but I can imagine that there is a case for the current
> behaviour too, and it's nice to preserve back-compatibility.  Emacs has
> `print-escape-newlines', and I guess we need something like that here -
> an addition to `print-options'?

Good idea.  I implemented this, and will push by the time you get this
mail.  The default is to escape newlines.

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/