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From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
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Subject: Apparent bug in `format-mode-line'.
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 21:04:09 -0500 (CDT)
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I believe that the following is a bug.  I do not know enough about mode
line stuff to fix it myself:

ELISP> (format-mode-line '(10 "12" "34" "56"))
"12        3456"
ELISP> 

I believe that the return value should have been:

"123456    "

Sincerely,

Luc.