Ian Price <ianpric...@googlemail.com> writes: > Hello guilers, > > 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") > " > "scheme@(guile-user)> > > Now, I can see why this would be useful when printing multiple line > strings, but the inconsistency with e.g. "\t\f" irks me. What do the > rest of you think?
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'? Neil