From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12866: 24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the right or left? Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:45:33 -0800 Message-ID: <0CF50E0E288748AEA7AAD1F837E5EE36@us.oracle.com> References: <6AF52605E30148ED8B17B728582BD036@us.oracle.com> <83pq3jwkwg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352692010 30357 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2012 03:46:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:46:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12866@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 12 04:46:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TXkzC-0007ra-PA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:46:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXkz3-0001G8-5r for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:46:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXkyy-0001Fy-6q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:46:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXkyv-0007us-4k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:52127) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXkyv-0007um-19 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:46:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TXkzG-000427-Dm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:47:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:47:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12866 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12866-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12866.135269197115440 (code B ref 12866); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:47:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12866) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Nov 2012 03:46:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34145 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TXkyQ-00040y-Tq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:46:11 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:40003) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TXkyP-00040s-0D for 12866@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qAC3jjYr013468 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:45:46 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAC3jiLU025656 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:45:44 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt114.oracle.com (abhmt114.oracle.com [141.146.116.66]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qAC3jhqv024647; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:45:43 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:45:43 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <83pq3jwkwg.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: Ac3AhySNHQRLY14bSauXekbpeBMhMAAAI6cA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-Spam-Score: 0.6 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: 0.6 (/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:66785 Archived-At: > > (set (make-local-variable 'mode-line-position) '("%40l")) > > > > It seems to me that that pads the line number with spaces > > on the left, not the right. But perhaps I'm missing something. > > I think string formats, like %s, are padded to the right. IOW, the > padding behaves like in C. Dunno what that means. Are you drawing a contrast with what you think? Or with %s (subprocess status) vs %l for mode-line constructs? Something else? The padding for %l (in the mode line) is what this bug report is about. AFAICT, the padding is put on the left. Do you see something different from that?