From 80a7f8be7bca1ca488887eedd7f0022d088e124a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 22:13:34 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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) --- doc/lispref/strings.texi | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.39.5