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24.0.50; eval + format weirdness

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Message #25 received at 9514 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner <at> inode.at>, 9514 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9514: 24.0.50; eval + format weirdness
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:06:23 +0200

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

> The patch you just installed for text properties (bzr 105788)
> causes (format "%4000s%%" "") to fail with
> (error "Format string ends in middle of format specifier"),
> and it causes (length (format "%%")) to incorrectly return 2.
> I fixed those two problems in a further patch (bzr 105791);
> I hope this also fixes the text-property issue.

Thanks, looks good.  For reference, here's a testcase for the
text-property issue:

(let ((s (string-to-multibyte "%%%%foo")))
  (add-text-properties 2 7 '(foo t) s)
  (format s))

Before my patch it returned #("%%foo" 0 5 (foo t)).

Andreas.

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