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bug#12866: 24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the ri
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Juanma Barranquero |
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bug#12866: 24.3.50; (elisp) `%-Constructs': padded with spaces to the right or left? |
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Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:27:15 +0100 |
> Sorry, I still don't get it. To me, each of those statements suggests that
> the
> text in the field, in this case the line number indication (e.g. "L25"), gets
> padded by adding spaces on the right (i.e., after the text), up to the
> specified
> width.
I'm not native, but to me "padded ON the left/right" suggests where
the padding goes, while "padded TO the left/right" seems to indicate
alignment after padding.
Juanma