From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:06:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] pretty: support %>> that steal trailing spaces
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSzHuSnT2+e+U+zJtOUtReUo=3JWZDQcCbMKS4ibZtjvA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1363400683-14813-13-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
<pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is pretty useful in `%<(100)%s%Cred%>(20)% an' where %s does not

s/% an/%an/

> use up all 100 columns and %an needs more than 20 columns. By
> replacing %>(20) with %>>(20), %an can steal spaces from %s.
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> index 17f82f4..036c14a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> @@ -170,7 +170,10 @@ The placeholders are:
>    columns, padding spaces on the right if necessary
>  - '%>(<N>)', '%>|(<N>)': similar to '%<(<N<)', '%<|(<N<)'
>    respectively, but padding spaces on the left
> -- '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '%<(<N<)', '%<|(<N<)'
> +- '%>>(<N>)', '%>>|(<N>)': similar to '%>(<N<)', '%>|(<N<)'

s/<N</<N>/g

> +  respectively, except that if the next placeholder takes more spaces
> +  than given and there are spaces on its left, use those spaces
> +- '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '% <(<N<)', '%<|(<N<)'

Ditto: s/<N</<N>/g

>    respectively, but padding both sides (i.e. the text is centered)