bug#12866: 24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the right or left?

[Juanma Barranquero]

> Sorry, I still don't get it.  To me, each of those statements suggests that 
> the
> text in the field, in this case the line number indication (e.g. "L25"), gets
> padded by adding spaces on the right (i.e., after the text), up to the 
> specified
> width.

I'm not native, but to me "padded ON the left/right" suggests where
the padding goes, while "padded TO the left/right" seems to indicate
alignment after padding.

    Juanma