Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!lll-winken!killer!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!UCBARPA.BERKELEY.EDU!franz!snooze!layer From: franz!snooze!layer@UCBARPA.BERKELEY.EDU (Kevin Layer) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: format bug? Message-ID: <8809202203.AA06117@snooze> Date: 20 Sep 88 22:03:17 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 16 in 18.50 (format "XX%-20sXX" "asd") returns "XXasdXX" instead of (as the C library on my machine does) "XXasd XX" doprnt() in doprnt.c is probably the culprit, but a quick glance turned up no obvious bugs. Also, a minor nit about the `format' (and `message') docstring: it sez that "the argument used by %s must be a string or a symbol" when, in fact, it can be anything (format does a Fprin1_to_string in the non-string case). Kevin