From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gareth Rees Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19023: 24.4; Long pause when evaluating numeric expression Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:41:57 +0000 Message-ID: <25A71202-3D8C-43CB-AF1F-DCC33E0FFD36@garethrees.org> References: <83zjbxlbk6.fsf@gnu.org> <79C49F77-295B-406F-8B5E-924415706513@garethrees.org> <83y4rhla89.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.0 \(1990.1\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415742209 18674 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2014 21:43:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:43:29 +0000 (UTC) To: 19023@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 22:43:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJDc-0000s5-GW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:43:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50810 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJDc-0008Jj-5E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:43:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35332) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJDS-0008Eo-7u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJDK-0005F6-P7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:60485) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJDK-0005Ez-I2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJDK-0006lA-8w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:43:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Gareth Rees Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19023 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19023-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19023.141574212825892 (code B ref 19023); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19023) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Nov 2014 21:42:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57698 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJCS-0006jY-2w for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:42:08 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.ravenbrook.com ([94.229.129.33]:17793) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJCO-0006jO-R7 for 19023@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.3] (cpc22-cmbg15-2-0-cust180.5-4.cable.virginm.net [86.27.176.181]) (authenticated bits=0) by raven.ravenbrook.com (8.14.8/8.14.5) with ESMTP id sABLg23l057882 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for <19023@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:42:03 GMT (envelope-from gdr@garethrees.org) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.ravenbrook.com: Host cpc22-cmbg15-2-0-cust180.5-4.cable.virginm.net [86.27.176.181] claimed to be [192.168.0.3] In-Reply-To: <83y4rhla89.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1990.1) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (raven.ravenbrook.com [94.229.129.33]); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:42:03 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:95880 > But Emacs doesn't (and cannot) know what you want. Surely Emacs should know that I don=E2=80=99t want to wait 10 seconds to = see the result of evaluating a numeric expression? Or if this is really = in doubt, Emacs could provide a user option by which I could tell it how = long I=E2=80=99m prepared to wait. Or Emacs could show me the numeric = result *while* it is searching the fonts, allowing me to hit C-g to = cancel the search if I am happy with just the number. For reference, the commit that introduced this problem appears to have = been 3223d013c2f94e6a0dd37879cf5faec8c0b2261d For the moment, I am working around the problem by advising = eval-expression-print-format, like this: (defun old-format (orig-fun value) (and (integerp value) (eq standard-output t) (format " (#o%o, #x%x)" value value))) (advice-add 'eval-expression-print-format :around #'old-format)=