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bug#24407: 24.5; doc of `format'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24407: 24.5; doc of `format' |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:58:18 +0300 |
> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 15:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> The Elisp manual doc for `format' (node Formatting Strings) looks OK.
> But the doc string has this bug:
>
> where flags is [+ #-0]+, width is [0-9]+, and precision is .[0-9]+
>
> must be a literal `.' here ^
Yes, using a period in a regexp-like expression is confusing, when we
mean a literal period.
> The precision part should be this (or equivalent): "[.][0-9]+", not
> ".[0-9]+".
But this is not the best solution. I opted for telling that precision
is a literal period followed by [0-9]+ instead.
Thanks, fixed on master.