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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





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-07  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1NHNcZ-0005Lr-Ph@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
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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