Subject: Re: bug#39956: 26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:03:59 +0100

Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]> writes:

> The fractions of a second are gone. Was that intended?
> I thought it was rather nice to have those, especially when comparing
> timers that would otherwise seem to expire simultaneously. Besides,
> 0.75 and 0 s are qualitatively rather different.

No, that was unintended.

Hm...  perhaps `format-second' should get support for fractional
seconds?  Introducing a new format spec should be easy enough, but what
should the format be?

%5s means front-padding with spaces so that it's 5 characters wide.
What about...  %5.2s to front-pad, and have two decimals?  Oh, yeah,
that's just the normal floating point spec; duh.

Should be trivial to implement.

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