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Re: emacs/lisp ChangeLog vc-bzr.el
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: emacs/lisp ChangeLog vc-bzr.el |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:01:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:
> That change fails on (substring author 0 7) when `author' contains less
> than 7 characters:
>
> error in process filter: concat: Args out of range: "oscar", 0, 7
> error in process filter: Args out of range: "oscar", 0, 7
>
> I tried with a kludge:
>
> (substring (concat author " ") 0 7)
>
> and that fixed the problem.
(format "%-7.7s" author)
If you put all the rest into the same format string as well, this might
look less kludgy.
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David Kastrup