format, concat and text properties

[Ryan Yeske]

Symptoms:

(format "%10s" (propertize "foo" 'face 'bold))

"foo" is bold in the above example, but not in this one:

(format "%10s" (concat "<" (propertize "foo" 'face 'bold) ">"))

Is this expected?

If emacs crashed, and you have the emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.8 (i386-unknown-openbsd3.6, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2005-10-24 on cut.bc.hsia.telus.net
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40399902
configured using `configure '--libdir=/usr/local/lib' 
'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib' 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: rcirc

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  use-hard-newlines: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  temp-buffer-resize-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
w r o n g SPC w i t h SPC C SPC b e f o r e SPC i d 
SPC s t a r t SPC c o m p a l i <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> l a i n i n g SPC a b o u t SPC w h e r 
e SPC t h e SPC b r a c e s SPC g o <return> C-c C-SPC 
C-x b <return> C-c C-SPC M-x r e p o r t - e m a c 
s - s <backspace> b u g <return>

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