* lisp/format-spec.el: Use lexical-binding. Remove dependence on
subr-x.el.
(format-spec-make): Clarify docstring.
(format-spec--parse-modifiers): Rename to...
(format-spec--parse-flags): ...this and simplify. In particular,
don't bother parsing :space-pad which is redundant and unused.
(format-spec--pad): Remove, replacing with...
(format-spec--do-flags): ...this new helper function which performs
more of format-spec's supported text manipulation.
(format-spec): Autoload. Allow optional argument to take on special
values 'ignore' and 'delete' for more control over what happens when
a replacement for a format specification isn't provided. Bring back
proper support for a precision modifier similar to that of 'format'.
* lisp/battery.el (battery-format): Rewrite in terms of format-spec.
(battery-echo-area-format, battery-mode-line-format): Mention
support of format-spec syntax in docstrings.
* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Custom Format Strings):
* etc/NEWS: Document and announce these changes.
* lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-do-compress-to):
* lisp/erc/erc-match.el (erc-log-matches):
* lisp/erc/erc.el (erc-update-mode-line-buffer):
* lisp/gnus/gnus-sieve.el (gnus-sieve-update):
* lisp/gnus/gssapi.el (open-gssapi-stream):
* lisp/gnus/mail-source.el (mail-source-fetch-file)
(mail-source-fetch-directory, mail-source-fetch-pop)
(mail-source-fetch-imap):
* lisp/gnus/message.el (message-insert-formatted-citation-line):
* lisp/image-dired.el:
* lisp/net/eww.el:
* lisp/net/imap.el (imap-kerberos4-open, imap-gssapi-open)
(imap-shell-open):
* lisp/net/network-stream.el (network-stream-open-shell):
* lisp/obsolete/tls.el (open-tls-stream):
* lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el:
Remove extraneous loads and autoloads of format-spec now that it is
autoloaded and simplify its uses where possible.
* test/lisp/battery-tests.el (battery-format): Test new format-spec
support.
* test/lisp/format-spec-tests.el (test-format-spec): Rename to...
(format-spec) ...this, extending test cases.
(test-format-unknown): Rename to...
(format-spec-unknown): ...this, extending test cases.
(test-format-modifiers): Rename to...
(format-spec-flags): ...this.
(format-spec-make, format-spec-parse-flags, format-spec-do-flags)
(format-spec-do-flags-truncate, format-spec-do-flags-pad)
(format-spec-do-flags-chop, format-spec-do-flags-case): New tests.
* doc/lispref/text.texi (Interpolated Strings): Move from here...
* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Custom Format Strings): ...to here,
renaming the node and clarifying the documentation.
(Formatting Strings): End node with sentence referring to the next
one.
* lisp/format-spec.el (format-spec): Clarify docstring.
* doc/lispref/text.texi (Interpolated Strings): New section.
* lisp/format-spec.el (format-spec--parse-modifiers)
(format-spec--pad): New functions.
(format-spec): Support more format modifiers (bug#32931).
* lisp/format-spec.el (format-spec): Allow passing through format
strings that have no specs (to be able to act as a filter). Also
add an example.
* test/lisp/format-spec-tests.el (test-format-spec): Add tests for
the new functionality.
Most of this change is to boilerplate commentary such as license URLs.
This change was prompted by ftp://ftp.gnu.org's going-away party,
planned for November. Change these FTP URLs to https://ftp.gnu.org
instead. Make similar changes for URLs to other organizations moving
away from FTP. Also, change HTTP to HTTPS for URLs to gnu.org and
fsf.org when this works, as this will further help defend against
man-in-the-middle attacks (for this part I omitted the MS-DOS and
MS-Windows sources and the test tarballs to keep the workload down).
HTTPS is not fully working to lists.gnu.org so I left those URLs alone
for now.