[comp.emacs] Major bummer

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