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Eli Zaretskii |
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[Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 80a7f8b: Clarify documentation of precision in format specs |
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Fri, 26 Aug 2016 19:13:51 +0000 (UTC) |
branch: emacs-25
commit 80a7f8be7bca1ca488887eedd7f0022d088e124a
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Clarify documentation of precision in format specs
* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Formatting Strings): Be less
definitive wrt what precision means in format specs other than
floating-point, %s and %S. (Bug#24314)
---
doc/lispref/strings.texi | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
index febe321..5fee373 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
@@ -1052,8 +1052,9 @@ precision specifies how many decimal places to show; if
zero, the
decimal-point itself is also omitted. For @samp{%s} and @samp{%S},
the precision truncates the string to the given width, so @samp{%.3s}
shows only the first three characters of the representation for
address@hidden Precision has no effect for other specification
-characters.
address@hidden For other specification characters, the effect of
+precision is what the local library functions of the @code{printf}
+family produce.
@node Case Conversion
@section Case Conversion in Lisp
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