From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 12866@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12866: 24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the right or left?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:27:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0SSws-6Q3gAy=CxNE5=mR0NVU8aq5VVhY29yFAWgPeqrvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2883B9120A049BC8F7DD9B3D234E5C4@us.oracle.com>
> Sorry, I still don't get it. To me, each of those statements suggests that the
> text in the field, in this case the line number indication (e.g. "L25"), gets
> padded by adding spaces on the right (i.e., after the text), up to the specified
> width.
I'm not native, but to me "padded ON the left/right" suggests where
the padding goes, while "padded TO the left/right" seems to indicate
alignment after padding.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-12 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-12 0:35 bug#12866: 24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the right or left? Drew Adams
2012-11-12 0:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-12 1:12 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-12 1:27 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2012-11-12 2:29 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-12 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-12 3:45 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-12 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-12 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-23 8:33 ` Chong Yidong
2012-11-12 20:37 ` Andreas Schwab
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