Re: format padding and text properties

[tomas]

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On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 01:38:16PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> I'm trying to pad out a string that has had a face applied to it, and
> it's not quite going as I'd hoped. In a nutshell:
> 
> (setq ss "bubba")
> (put-text-property 0 (length ss) 'face 'my-face ss)
> (format "%10s" ss)
> 
> --> #("      bubba" 0 5 (face my-face))
> 
> I'd like the face to stay with the actual string, not the spaces! Does
> text property stickiness have anything to do with this? Does anyone have
> any clever tips?

This is remarkable. I didn't even know that text properties made it
through format (admittedly in a strange way).

Learnt something new today :-)

regards
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