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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-08-26 22:13:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-08-26 22:13:34 +0300 |
| commit | 80a7f8be7bca1ca488887eedd7f0022d088e124a (patch) | |
| tree | eafb6497dbdfe92ef5e68262ece11e3cc255986d | |
| parent | 88a5052579069be93a0af556c9a43a8ed75d3efb (diff) | |
| download | emacs-80a7f8be7bca1ca488887eedd7f0022d088e124a.tar.gz | |
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)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/strings.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index febe3212ba9..5fee37361fd 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 -@var{object}. Precision has no effect for other specification -characters. +@var{object}. 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 |