From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs/lisp ChangeLog vc-bzr.el
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:18:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87my1uahap.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ein7l124.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:01:55 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
Good point, thanks.
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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
2009-12-07 16:18 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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