* bug#24407: 24.5; doc of `format'
@ 2016-09-10 22:20 Drew Adams
2016-09-16 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2016-09-10 22:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 24407
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 ^
The precision part should be this (or equivalent): "[.][0-9]+", not
".[0-9]+".
In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'
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2016-09-10 22:20 bug#24407: 24.5; doc of `format' Drew Adams
@ 2016-09-16 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2016-09-16 9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 24407-done
> 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.
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