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Mistake in GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Wayman <ericwayman <at> fastmail.fm>

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:39:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eric Wayman <ericwayman <at> fastmail.fm>
To: 24314 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, info <at> fsf.org
Subject: bug#24314: Mistake in GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:07:19 -0400

To Whom It May Concern,

I believe I have found a mistake in the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference
Manual.

In section 4.7, Formatting Strings
(https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Formatting-Strings.html#Formatting-Strings)
it says:

    "The precision is a decimal-point ‘.’ followed by a digit-string...
    Precision has no effect for other specification characters."

However, running

    (format "%.10d" 23)

produces

    0000000023

which clearly does have an effect (i.e. padding the integer with zeroes
to the left).

Best regards,
Eric Wayman
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