From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 12866@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12866: 24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the right or left?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:38:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pq3jwkwg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6AF52605E30148ED8B17B728582BD036@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:35:02 -0800
>
> The Info node says this near the top:
>
> In any construct except `%%', you can add a decimal integer after the
> `%' to specify a minimum field width. If the width is less, the field
> is padded with spaces to the right.
>
> >From what I can see, it pads with spaces to the left of the field, not
> the right. For example:
>
> (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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-12 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-12 0:35 bug#12866: 24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the right or left? Drew Adams
2012-11-12 0:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-12 1:12 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-12 1:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-12 2:29 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-12 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-11-12 3:45 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-12 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-12 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-23 8:33 ` Chong Yidong
2012-11-12 20:37 ` Andreas Schwab
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