mode-line-format changed behaviour in 18.56

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From: Oliver Schoett
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 1991 15:53

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My mode-line-format variable contains the element (-20 . "%f") to list
up to 20 characters of the visited file name.  In emacs 18.55, this
gave me the last 20 characters of the full file path name; in 18.56,
it gives me the first 20 characters.  That's no good, because all my
file names now read '/nfs/flip/home/schoe' :-(

How can I persuade emacs 18.56 to give me the last n characters of the
full file path name in the mode line?


Oliver Schoett	     Institut f. Informatik, Technische Univ. M"unchen
		     Postfach 20 24 20,	   8000 M"unchen 2,    Germany
schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de    phone +49 89 2105-2390  fax -8207

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