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Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zony ([45.2.7.65]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id r133sm4187601ith.9.2017.03.26.10.38.30 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:38:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83fui09i5z.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 26 Mar 2017 18:22:48 +0300") 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:130980 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net >> Cc: 16828@debbugs.gnu.org >> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:55:44 -0400 >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> >> > >> >> > So, under this proposal, is there any way to get the character for a >> >> > single invocation of M-:, without setting the option, if I only need >> >> > that sometimes? Should there be such a way? >> >> >> >> Isn't M-: (prin1-char value) sufficient? >> > >> > No, not after years of using "M-: #xNNNN RET". >> >> If you want to keep muscle memory, >> >> (setq eval-expression-print-maximum-character most-positive-fixnum) >> >> should give you back the old behaviour. If you only want this only some >> of the time, perhaps we should add a toggle-print-maximum-character >> command? > > What about a special value of prefix argument, like zero? If that's > OK, it's more convenient than any of the above. Sure, it's just a matter of deciding how to fit this in with the existing interpretation of the prefix argument. Right now, a non-nil prefix argument means to insert the result into the buffer.