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 18:29:26 -0800 Message-ID: <5F2F09D0CE294C70A51F54C2B980849C@us.oracle.com> References: <6AF52605E30148ED8B17B728582BD036@us.oracle.com> 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 1352687449 1600 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2012 02:30:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12866@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Juanma Barranquero'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 12 03:30:59 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 1TXjne-0002W8-8l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:30:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47059 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXjnU-0005kF-NB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:30:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44773) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXjnQ-0005k8-9p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:30:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXjnN-0004b9-4f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:30:44 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:52077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TXjnM-0004b4-Vz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:30:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TXjni-0002Jw-CM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:31:02 -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 02:31:02 +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=B12866.13526874038823 (code B ref 12866); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:31:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12866) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Nov 2012 02:30:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34094 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TXjmk-0002IA-C5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:20514) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TXjmi-0002HR-RB for 12866@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:30:01 -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 qAC2Tbge000556 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:29:38 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAC2Tapi010573 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:29:37 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt116.oracle.com (abhmt116.oracle.com [141.146.116.68]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qAC2TaKl008525; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:29:36 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:29:36 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ac3AdPJz8iWrroSkRryFZjj+CEwKigAB+amA 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:66783 Archived-At: > > Sorry, I still don't get it. To me, each of those > > statements suggests that the text in the field, in this > > case the line number indication (e.g. "L25"), gets > > padded by adding spaces on the right (i.e., after the > > text), up to the specified width. > > I'm not native, but to me "padded ON the left/right" suggests where > the padding goes, while "padded TO the left/right" seems to indicate > alignment after padding. No. They both mean that the padding is added at/to/on the left/right of whatever object is being padded. And padding does not in itself have anything to do with alignment. It just refers to adding something to the target object, making it fatter/thicker/wider etc. ;-)