From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31614: Off Topic Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 18:18:21 +0300 Message-ID: <83y3g37qrm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <30619002-269A-47C4-8EB3-CEACCE55E4C0@scratch.space> <7390947A-8234-4D5C-8738-307C4606C038@gnu.org> <877enodnlo.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527520636 29531 195.159.176.226 (28 May 2018 15:17:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 15:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: van@scratch.space, 31614@debbugs.gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 28 17:17:12 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNJtX-0007WQ-Gm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 28 May 2018 11:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40302) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNJun-0007Tc-CA; Mon, 28 May 2018 11:18:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3838 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fNJum-0002yC-OK; Mon, 28 May 2018 11:18:29 -0400 In-reply-to: <877enodnlo.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Mon, 28 May 2018 07:30:11 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:146637 Archived-At: > From: Noam Postavsky > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 31614@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 07:30:11 -0400 > > > 4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d) > > > > In the below, it is not possible to set > > `eval-expression-print-maximum-character’ to `nil’ to > > achieve the simple `4’ result. > > Oh, I think I intended eval-expression-print-maximum-character to only > affect the ?\C-d part, e.g., if you set it to 0, you get Indeed, this feature was only about showing the character, mainly because for large enough value the display could be annoyingly delayed while Emacs looks for a suitable font. > 4 (#o4, #x4) > > But I see there is no way to get a plain '4' except by (setq > eval-expression-print-maximum-character nil), which is kind of an > accident. I don't think it's an accident, I think it's a very useful feature, as one doesn't need to format the value specially when one needs hex or octal string representation.