Re: [PATCH 12/12] pretty: support %>> that steal trailing spaces
From: Eric Sunshine <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:25
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [off-list ref] wrote:
This is pretty useful in `%<(100)%s%Cred%>(20)% an' where %s does not
s/% an/%an/
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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)