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bug#71856: 30.0.50; string-pad length vs width
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#71856: 30.0.50; string-pad length vs width |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Jul 2024 01:29:26 +0000 |
Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> Is it just we or we should `s/length/width/` on the doc&code of
> `string-pad`? AFAIK counting codepoints rarely makes sense (unless
> those code points have width==1, of course).
>
> Same for `string-fill`.
I think that makes sense.
> I'd usually assume it was an oversight, but the doc keeps repeating
> "length" enough times (and it's right next to `string-limit` which
> insists it's about length).
Could this have been an oversight there also?
- bug#71856: 30.0.50; string-pad length vs width,
Stefan Kangas <=