Re: format padding and text properties

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> (setq ss "bubba")
>> (put-text-property 0 (length ss) 'face 'my-face ss)
>> (format "%10s" ss)
>>
>> --> #("      bubba" 0 5 (face my-face))
>
> Is this with an up-to-date trunk?  This should have been fixed a few
> weeks ago:
>
> commit 1c09423880e1c48d6ba02a196430e829d1d87d57
> Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date:   Thu Jun 9 16:52:08 2016 +0300
>
>     Fix copying text properties by 'format'

Ah! No wonder the bug seemed to crop up out of nowhere.

The bad news is the problem still seems to be there. I pulled and built
the master branch this morning, and can see Eli's patch in git log.

"GNU Emacs 25.1.50.5 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.6)
 of 2016-06-22"

Eric