From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Floating-point formatting string Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:32:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <45D2630F.70105@ig.com.br> <87mz3hy0ze.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47962.128.165.123.18.1171470417.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171470763 29655 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2007 16:32:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Vinicius Jose Latorre , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 14 17:32:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHN3T-0004sR-WE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:32:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHN3T-0005rN-Jm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:32:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHN3J-0005r6-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:32:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHN3H-0005qu-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:32:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHN3H-0005qr-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HHN3G-0004pF-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:32:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D2321953; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:32:11 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: .. I want FORTY-TWO TRYNEL FLOATATION SYSTEMS installed within SIX AND A HALF HOURS!!! In-Reply-To: <47962.128.165.123.18.1171470417.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Stuart D. Herring's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:26:57 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66386 Archived-At: "Stuart D. Herring" writes: > That doesn't quite explain Vinicius' other examples; in particular, > > M-: (format "% 3.3f" 1.2) > =3D=3D> " 1.200" > > which has been padded even though it's longer than 3 characters without > the space. That's not padding, it's the sign. Similar to the '+' flag. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."