pedz@yow.mpd.tandem.com (Perry Smith) (11/15/90)
In GNU emacs the format function can not cope with a negative field width with the %s option. i.e. (format "%-20s" "hi") is the same as (format "%s" "hi"). This is not the case for decimal strings, etc. Also, it would be nice if format understood the * option (e.g. "%*s"). pedz