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From: pedz@yow.mpd.tandem.com (Perry Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Major bummer
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Date: 14 Nov 90 22:35:01 GMT
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In GNU emacs the format function can not cope with a negative field
width with the %s option.  i.e. (format "%-20s" "hi") is the same as
(format "%s" "hi").  This is not the case for decimal strings, etc.
Also, it would be nice if format understood the * option (e.g. "%*s").

pedz