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24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the right or left? |
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Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:35:02 -0800 |
The Info node says this near the top:
In any construct except `%%', you can add a decimal integer after the
`%' to specify a minimum field width. If the width is less, the field
is padded with spaces to the right.
>From what I can see, it pads with spaces to the left of the field, not
the right. For example:
(set (make-local-variable 'mode-line-position) '("%40l"))
It seems to me that that pads the line number with spaces on the left,
not the right. But perhaps I'm missing something.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2012-11-05 on MS-W7-DANI
Bzr revision: 110809 address@hidden
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
`configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
-I../../libs/libXpm-3.5.10/include -I../../libs/libXpm-3.5.10/src
-I../../libs/libpng-1.2.37-lib/include -I../../libs/zlib-1.2.5
-I../../libs/giflib-4.1.4-1-lib/include
-I../../libs/jpeg-6b-4-lib/include
-I../../libs/tiff-3.8.2-1-lib/include
-I../../libs/libxml2-2.7.8-w32-bin/include/libxml2
-I../../libs/gnutls-3.0.9-w32-bin/include
-I../../libs/libiconv-1.9.2-1-lib/include'
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Re: bug#12866: 24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the right or left? |
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Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:33:05 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> The bug report contrasted the documentation with what the code does.
> I pointed out that the documentation is only correct as far as string
> formatting is concerned, but is incorrect wrt numerical formats, which
> indeed pad on the left. Hopefully, this will help you know the truth,
> and will help someone to fix the documentation.
Fixed.
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