From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: format padding and text properties
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:06:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn2twsua.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160622060829.GA32666@tuxteam.de
<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 01:38:16PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> I'm trying to pad out a string that has had a face applied to it, and
>> it's not quite going as I'd hoped. In a nutshell:
>>
>> (setq ss "bubba")
>> (put-text-property 0 (length ss) 'face 'my-face ss)
>> (format "%10s" ss)
>>
>> --> #(" bubba" 0 5 (face my-face))
>>
>> I'd like the face to stay with the actual string, not the spaces! Does
>> text property stickiness have anything to do with this? Does anyone have
>> any clever tips?
>
> This is remarkable. I didn't even know that text properties made it
> through format (admittedly in a strange way).
>
> Learnt something new today :-)
So you're saying I shouldn't expect this to Just Work? :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-22 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-22 5:38 format padding and text properties Eric Abrahamsen
2016-06-22 6:08 ` tomas
2016-06-22 8:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2016-06-22 8:21 ` tomas
2016-06-22 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-23 6:30 ` tomas
[not found] <mailman.1975.1466573922.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-22 8:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-06-22 8:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-06-22 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-22 15:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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