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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el index 8a9424cbb3d..7e17a3464e6 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el @@ -293,7 +293,11 @@ is returned unchanged. If STRING is longer than LENGTH, return a substring consisting of the first LENGTH characters of STRING. If END is non-nil, return -the last LENGTH characters instead." +the last LENGTH characters instead. + +When shortening strings for display purposes, +`truncate-string-to-width' is almost always a better alternative +than this function." (unless (natnump length) (signal 'wrong-type-argument (list 'natnump length))) (cond |