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mail-source.el (mail-source-value): Revert previous patch. gnus-picon.el: Inhibit showing picons for top level domains. gnus-art.el (gnus-article-treat-body-boundary): Fix length computing. gnus-news.texi: Mention nnimap-inbox. nnimap.el (nnimap-request-expire-articles): Compress ranges before deletion. nnimap.el (nnimap-retrieve-headers): Don't select the group, because that's already done by nnimap-possibly-change-group. gnus-html.el (gnus-html-show-images): Fix gnus-html-display-image arguments. gnus-html.el (gnus-html-wash-images): Fix spec computing to include start/end. nnimap.el: Store the IMAP greeting, so that we can tell what kind of server we're talking to. gnus.el (gnus): Give a final warning after startup. gnus-ems.el (gnus-create-image): Ignore all image-creation errors. nndraft.el (nndraft-request-expire-articles): Fetch the expiry target for the correct group. nnmh.el (nnmh-request-expire-articles): Don't try to fetch the expiry target here, because we don't know the Gnus name of the group. nnimap.el (nnimap-get-whole-article): Remove the data that may have arrived before the FETCH data. gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-retrieve-headers): Don't propagate `fetch-old'. gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-read-servers-validate): Change the level for the "Ignoring disappeared server" to something low. nndoc.el (nndoc-request-list): Return success always.
author Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
date Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:01:31 +0000
parents 8d09094063d0
children 417b1e4d63cd
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;;; format-spec.el --- functions for formatting arbitrary formatting strings

;; Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
;; Keywords: tools

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;;; Code:

(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))

(defun format-spec (format specification)
  "Return a string based on FORMAT and SPECIFICATION.
FORMAT is a string containing `format'-like specs like \"bash %u %k\",
while SPECIFICATION is an alist mapping from format spec characters
to values.  Any text properties on a %-spec itself are propagated to
the text that it generates."
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert format)
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (while (search-forward "%" nil t)
      (cond
       ;; Quoted percent sign.
       ((eq (char-after) ?%)
	(delete-char 1))
       ;; Valid format spec.
       ((looking-at "\\([-0-9.]*\\)\\([a-zA-Z]\\)")
	(let* ((num (match-string 1))
	       (spec (string-to-char (match-string 2)))
	       (val (cdr (assq spec specification))))
	  (unless val
	    (error "Invalid format character: `%%%c'" spec))
	  ;; Pad result to desired length.
          (let ((text (format (concat "%" num "s") val)))
	    ;; Insert first, to preserve text properties.
            (insert-and-inherit text)
            ;; Delete the specifier body.
            (delete-region (+ (match-beginning 0) (length text))
                           (+ (match-end 0) (length text)))
            ;; Delete the percent sign.
            (delete-region (1- (match-beginning 0)) (match-beginning 0)))))
       ;; Signal an error on bogus format strings.
       (t
	(error "Invalid format string"))))
    (buffer-string)))

(defun format-spec-make (&rest pairs)
  "Return an alist suitable for use in `format-spec' based on PAIRS.
PAIRS is a list where every other element is a character and a value,
starting with a character."
  (let (alist)
    (while pairs
      (unless (cdr pairs)
	(error "Invalid list of pairs"))
      (push (cons (car pairs) (cadr pairs)) alist)
      (setq pairs (cddr pairs)))
    (nreverse alist)))

(provide 'format-spec)

;;; format-spec.el ends here