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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 56685@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56685: OBOE in string-truncate-left?
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:33:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zgh1jmr0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leslfhqh.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:35:02 +0200)

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se,  56685@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:35:02 +0200
> 
> Currently, the result of applying string-truncate-left to STRING can be
> a string just as long as STRING but beginning with "..." instead of the
> first three letters of STRING.  What is a valid use case for that?

When STRING is part of a longer string.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-22 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-21 22:10 bug#56685: OBOE in string-truncate-left? Stefan Kangas
2022-07-22 10:26 ` Stephen Berman
2022-07-22 11:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-22 12:35     ` Stephen Berman
2022-07-22 13:33       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-07-22 15:23         ` Stephen Berman
2022-07-23  6:58           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-23  8:51             ` Stephen Berman

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