This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give a recipe starting from `emacs -Q': When formatting a string using the %s format specifier with a input string that has a text property under certain circumstances Emacs throws an args-out-of-range error. Steps to reproduce: - Evaluate this (emacs -Q): (format "%.10s" (concat "1234567890aaaa" (propertize "12345678901234567890" 'xxx 25))) - Gives Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range 10 14) format("%.10s" #("1234567890aaaa12345678901234567890" 14 34 (xxx 25))) eval((format "%.10s" (concat "1234567890aaaa" (propertize "12345678901234567890" ... 25)))) eval-last-sexp-1(nil) eval-last-sexp(nil) call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) The problem seems not to occur when the propertized part is not outside the part that gets formatted into the string. I.e., this works: (format "%.10s" (concat "123456789" (propertize "12345678901234567890" 'xxx 25))) -- David If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file /usr/share/emacs/23.1.90/etc/DEBUG. 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