Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-blame.el: truncate author to avoid jagged left edge of code

Without this patch, the author column in git-blame-mode spills
over in some rows:

822a7d [off-list ref]:const char git_usage_
f2dd8c [off-list ref]: "git [--version] [--exec-
a1bea2 [off-list ref]: "           [-p|--paginat
a1bea2 [off-list ref]: "           [--git-dir=<p
293b07 [off-list ref]: "           [-c name=valu
62b469 [off-list ref]:        "           <comm
822a7d [off-list ref]:

As a result, code meant to line up does not line up correctly and the
colored code area has a jagged left edge.

Specify a maximum width for the autohr email address in the default
blame prefix (i.e., use %20.20A instead of %20A) to fix it.

822a7d <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.c:const char git_usage_strin
f2dd8c [off-list ref]: "git [--version] [--exec-

The (format) function used to implement format-spec has supported
precision specifiers like ".20" in emacs since 2002-12-09, so this
should be safe.

Helped-by: Kevin Ryde [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
In February of 2011, I wrote:

quoted

 - email addresses are often longer than 20 characters.  Does
   format-spec provide a way to truncate to a certain length,
   so the prefixes can line up?

Better late than never, I guess.  Sensible?

contrib/emacs/git-blame.el |    2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/emacs/git-blame.el b/contrib/emacs/git-blame.el
index d351cfb6..137d5ba9 100644
--- a/contrib/emacs/git-blame.el
+++ b/contrib/emacs/git-blame.el

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
  :group 'git-blame)

(defcustom git-blame-prefix-format
-  "%h %20A:"
+  "%h %20.20A:"
  "The format of the prefix added to each line in `git-blame'
mode. The format is passed to `format-spec' with the following format keys: