Re: git-blame.el: what is format-spec?

Sergei Organov [off-list ref] writes:

Andreas Schwab [off-list ref] writes:

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Sergei Organov [off-list ref] writes:

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What is format-spec function in current git-blame.el? Neither my GNU
Emacs 22.2.1 nor Google knows anything about it.

It's part of Emacs since more than 9 years, imported from Gnus.

Thanks, I now see it in Gnus on my own computer, in
lisp/gnus/format-spec.el.gz.

GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of 2008-11-10
on raven, modified by Debian 

However, isn't it a bad idea to require Gnus(!) for git-blame to run? Gnus
is not installed on our server where I've encountered the problem. Was
format-spec actually moved to core emacs recently?

That was not my intention when I posted the patch. I seem to recall that
I asked for testing, in particular from users with older Emacsen than
23. But I got no response, and only recently discovered that the patch
hade been accepted.

format-spec is included in Emacs 23, and is a useful function. But we
can rewrite git-blame.el to do the formatting manuall instead.

-- 
David Kågedal