From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: Vasilij Schneidermann <v.schneidermann@gmail.com>
Cc: 20691@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20691: 24.5; `eval-expression' doesn't conform to its docstring
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 12:02:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871thzya5b.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPGgwWSf+zJdszPE5Ek2rmT64a9jUy0yJTjDE6LqffepLPcdUg@mail.gmail.com> (Vasilij Schneidermann's message of "Fri, 29 May 2015 11:36:19 +0200")
Vasilij Schneidermann <v.schneidermann@gmail.com> writes:
> Evaluating numbers and characters with M-: prints their value and
> additionally to that the octal, hexadecimal and character
> representation
> of the number if it's printable. I've checked its docstring and was
> surprised to read that the aforementioned behaviour should only happen
> when using a prefix argument of zero.
It seems to be fixed on the master branch.
I just tried :
"M-: 5 7 RET" show "57" in the echo area
"C-u M-: 5 7 RET" inserts "57" in the buffer
"M-0 M-: 5 7 RET" inserts "57 (#o71, #x39, ?9)" in the buffer
But indeed I observe the same problem on emacs-24.
--
Nico.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-29 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-29 9:36 bug#20691: 24.5; `eval-expression' doesn't conform to its docstring Vasilij Schneidermann
2015-05-29 10:02 ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2015-06-25 7:58 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2015-06-25 10:09 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-25 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-13 0:57 ` npostavs
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