From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs/lisp ChangeLog vc-bzr.el
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:01:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ein7l124.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pr6rwvcn.fsf@telefonica.net
Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
> That change fails on (substring author 0 7) when `author' contains less
> than 7 characters:
>
> error in process filter: concat: Args out of range: "oscar", 0, 7
> error in process filter: Args out of range: "oscar", 0, 7
>
> I tried with a kludge:
>
> (substring (concat author " ") 0 7)
>
> and that fixed the problem.
(format "%-7.7s" author)
If you put all the rest into the same format string as well, this might
look less kludgy.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-07 7:01 UTC|newest]
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2009-12-06 23:12 ` emacs/lisp ChangeLog vc-bzr.el Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-06 23:27 ` Chong Yidong
2009-12-07 7:01 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2009-12-07 16:18 ` Chong Yidong
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