From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: 71856@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#71856: 30.0.50; string-pad length vs width
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 21:52:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsewri6qi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmno_Vssc_8AnTGdi=cB2qH=oVjercT12PGJ44CSuy_Ddg@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Wed, 3 Jul 2024 01:29:26 +0000")
>> Is it just we or we should `s/length/width/` on the doc&code of
>> `string-pad`? AFAIK counting codepoints rarely makes sense (unless
>> those code points have width==1, of course).
>> Same for `string-fill`.
> I think that makes sense.
Thanks.
>> I'd usually assume it was an oversight, but the doc keeps repeating
>> "length" enough times (and it's right next to `string-limit` which
>> insists it's about length).
>
> Could this have been an oversight there also?
No, this one is definitely done on purpose: for actual width, we already
have another function and `string-limit` explicitly refers to it.
[ Maybe the `coding-system` arg of `string-limit` should be mandatory,
since it seems to be the most important use-case, tho. ]
Stefan
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2024-06-30 15:37 bug#71856: 30.0.50; string-pad length vs width Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-03 1:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-07-03 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-07-06 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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