From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 19:13:34 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Clarify documentation of precision in format specs
X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.1~14
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=80a7f8b;p=emacs.git

Clarify documentation of precision in format specs

* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Formatting Strings): Be less
definitive wrt what precision means in format specs other than
floating-point, %s and %S.  (Bug#24314)
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
index febe3212ba9..5fee37361fd 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
@@ -1052,8 +1052,9 @@ precision specifies how many decimal places to show; if zero, the
 decimal-point itself is also omitted.  For @samp{%s} and @samp{%S},
 the precision truncates the string to the given width, so @samp{%.3s}
 shows only the first three characters of the representation for
-@var{object}.  Precision has no effect for other specification
-characters.
+@var{object}.  For other specification characters, the effect of
+precision is what the local library functions of the @code{printf}
+family produce.
 
 @node Case Conversion
 @section Case Conversion in Lisp