From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: 71856@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#71856: 30.0.50; string-pad length vs width
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 01:29:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmno_Vssc_8AnTGdi=cB2qH=oVjercT12PGJ44CSuy_Ddg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv34ouqwk3.fsf-monnier+@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> Is it just we or we should `s/length/width/` on the doc&code of
> `string-pad`? AFAIK counting codepoints rarely makes sense (unless
> those code points have width==1, of course).
>
> Same for `string-fill`.
I think that makes sense.
> I'd usually assume it was an oversight, but the doc keeps repeating
> "length" enough times (and it's right next to `string-limit` which
> insists it's about length).
Could this have been an oversight there also?
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-30 15:37 bug#71856: 30.0.50; string-pad length vs width Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-03 1:29 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2024-07-03 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-06 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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