GNU bug report logs - #39290
[PATCH] Correct regexp for flags in 'format' doc string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:22:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: 39290 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39290: [PATCH] Correct regexp for flags in 'format' doc string
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 15:21:02 +0100

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The doc string for 'format' contains

  where field is [0-9]+ followed by a literal dollar "$", flags is
  [+ #-0]+, width is [0-9]+, and precision is a literal period "."
  followed by [0-9]+.

The spec for flags isn't a correct regexp; the hyphen should be last.  This matters, because people copy it into their code without thinking (observed in the wild).

Patch acceptable for emacs-27?


[0001-Correct-regexp-for-flags-in-format-doc-string.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]
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