When Emacs shows an integer value in the minibuffer, or as an output to IELM, it shows three representations of it -- octal, hex and as character:
ELISP> 10
10 (#o12, #xa, ?\C-j)
This is really nice, and I'd like to use something like that in my programs. Now, while I can use format to show an integer as octal (with %o) or with hex (with %x), I don't know how to get the nice formatted character as the above. %c will actually print the character without escaping, and will, for example, print a line feed for 10.
I have tried the print-escape-* variables, without success:
ELISP> (let ((print-escape-newlines t)
(print-escape-nonascii t)
(print-escape-multibyte t)
(print-escape-control-characters t))
(concat "char: " (string 10)))
"char:
"
ELISP> (let ((print-escape-newlines t)
(print-escape-nonascii t)
(print-escape-multibyte t)
(print-escape-control-characters t))
(format "char: %s" (string 10)))
"char:
"
ELISP> (let ((print-escape-newlines t)
(print-escape-nonascii t)
(print-escape-multibyte t)
(print-escape-control-characters t))
(format "char: %s" 10))
"char: 10"
ELISP> (let ((print-escape-newlines t)
(print-escape-nonascii t)
(print-escape-multibyte t)
(print-escape-control-characters t))
(format "char: %c" 10))
"char:
"
What I want is to get a string with the escaped character, to later print with princ.
I've tried looking into the source for IELM and the minibuffer, but they seem to delegate printing to other parts of Emacs, and I couldn't find how it's done.
How can I get those printed the way I described?
