Merge from origin/emacs-25

0ffc9ce Update admin/authors.el
0ad7410 Update Antinews in ELisp manual
ea0f750 Fix comments on window height macros
0bbdeed Fix 'url-http-create-request' when cookies are used
0045998 Fix cross reference in frames.texi
1392894 ; * etc/DEBUG: Minor copyedits.
304a5c8 ; * etc/DEBUG: Improve documentation of getting control to GDB.
56bf7d7 Fix regexp-opt documentation (bug #17862)
803ad6f ; Fix documentation of seq-subseq
ed4530d * lisp/emacs-lisp/gv.el (gv-ref): Fix example of PLACE in doc...
88ea396 ; Spelling fixes
17197d0 Fix tags-query-replace docstring
80a7f8b Clarify documentation of precision in format specs
88a5052 Improve and clarify documentation of subprocesses
89eb09f * etc/PROBLEMS: Mention gnutls-cli 3.5.3 (Bug#24247).

# Conflicts:
#	etc/PROBLEMS
#	src/process.c

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
index 0b9529460f3..c5a6cb264d8 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
@@ -1060,8 +1060,9 @@ precision specifies how many decimal places to show; if zero, the
 decimal-point itself is also omitted.  For @samp{%s} and @samp{%S},
 the precision truncates the string to the given width, so @samp{%.3s}
 shows only the first three characters of the representation for
-@var{object}.  Precision has no effect for other specification
-characters.
+@var{object}.  For other specification characters, the effect of
+precision is what the local library functions of the @code{printf}
+family produce.
 
 @node Case Conversion
 @section Case Conversion in Lisp