Improve the doc string of 'format'

* src/editfns.c (Fformat): Fix ambiguity in the doc string's usage
of a literal period.  (Bug#24407)

This was backported from master
(cherry picked from commit 7123896626b06c26c4e37839ab41e41980c8f433)

diff --git a/src/editfns.c b/src/editfns.c
index e1c85166545224ddf879a485cf065422a1bbb938..51b87de88219b442382118f93b5d97b0e793382c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/editfns.c
+++ b/src/editfns.c
@@ -3815,7 +3815,8 @@ specifiers, as follows:
 
   %<flags><width><precision>character
 
-where flags is [+ #-0]+, width is [0-9]+, and precision is .[0-9]+
+where flags is [+ #-0]+, width is [0-9]+, and precision is a literal
+period "." followed by [0-9]+
 
 The + flag character inserts a + before any positive number, while a
 space inserts a space before any positive number; these flags only