bug#40056: 26.3; `comment-padright' fails when `comment-padding' is an integer

bug#40056: 26.3; `comment-padright' fails when `comment-padding' is an integer

[bruno cuconato via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Docstring of `comment-padding' variable says: Can also be an integer which will be automatically turned into a string of the corresponding number of spaces. 

I'm using Emacs 26, but by inspection I don't expect a different result in master.

% emacs -Q --batch --eval '(let ((comment-padding 0)) (comment-padright "-- " 1))'
Wrong type argument: sequencep, 0

In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.11)
of 2019-12-10 built on buildhw-10.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.12006000

Configured using:
'configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix=
--disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
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-- bruno cuconato

bug#40056: 26.3; `comment-padright' fails when `comment-padding' is an integer

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

bruno cuconato <bcclaro@tutanota.com> writes:

> Docstring of `comment-padding' variable says: Can also be an integer
> which will be automatically turned into a string of the corresponding
> number of spaces.
>
> I'm using Emacs 26, but by inspection I don't expect a different
> result in master.
>
> % emacs -Q --batch --eval '(let ((comment-padding 0))
> (comment-padright "-- " 1))'
> Wrong type argument: sequencep, 0

This should now be fixed in Emacs 28.

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