[Cook] end-of-line question

[Jerry Pendergraft]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Matthew Lee wrote:

> I'm having some trouble with end-of-line's in cook recipes -- I hope
> someone can help!
> 
> The cook user guide says that "An escaped end-of-line is totally
> ignored." (section 7.1.2).
> 
> In one of my cookbooks, I'm printing some debug info in an attempt to
> get my recipes right.  I want to limit the column width of my cookbook
> to 80 columns.  Here's what I'm doing:
> 
> function print Debug1 [rather-long-function-name argument1 argument2]/\
> [fromto %%-%2-%3 %1-%2 i586-Linux-avr]/lib\
> [rather-long-function-name argument1 argument2].a
function print will automatically wrap lines on output even if your
message did not contain spaces.

try using echo instead.
Also you can use catenate and/or unsplit to form the message across
multiple lines.
Something like:

echo [unsplit " " Debug1 
       [catenate [rather-long-function-name argument1 argument2] /
                 [fromto %1-%2-%3 %1-%2 i586-Linux-avr]/lib      /
                 [rather-long-function-name argument1 argument2] .a
       ]
     ];

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Matt Lee
> KlaxonIQA
> Sydney, Australia
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