From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:18:25 GMT
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/5] doc: pretty-formats document negative column alignments
Message-ID: <20230119181827.1319-4-philipoakley@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <20230119181827.1319-1-philipoakley@iee.email>

Commit 066790d7cb0 (pretty.c: support <direction>|(<negative number>) forms,
2016-06-16) added the option for right justified column alignment without
updating the documentation.

Add an explanation of its use of negative column values.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
---
 Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 8cc1072196..cbca60a196 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -158,7 +158,9 @@ The placeholders are:
 				  Note 2: spaces around the N and M (see below)
 				  values are optional.
 '%<|( <M> )':: make the next placeholder take at least until Mth
-	     display column, padding spaces on the right if necessary
+	     display column, padding spaces on the right if necessary.
+	     Use negative M values for column positions measured
+	     from the right hand edge of the terminal window.
 '%>( <N> )', '%>|( <M> )':: similar to '%<( <N> )', '%<|( <M> )' respectively,
 			but padding spaces on the left
 '%>>( <N> )', '%>>|( <M> )':: similar to '%>( <N> )', '%>|( <M> )'
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2.39.1.windows.1