From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 19023@debbugs.gnu.org, Gareth Rees <gdr@garethrees.org>
Subject: bug#19023: 24.4; Long pause when evaluating numeric expression
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:56:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvppct9obw.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fvdpxtls.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:25:35 +0100")
> I've always thought it rather strange that Emacs tries to display the
> character corresponding to the integer value when you M-: stuff. How
> useful is that, really?
If you ask it this way, then it's probably never useful.
But when you use M-: on an expression which returns a character, then
I find it handy to see the character rather than only its integer value.
But maybe this feature is more trouble than it's worth. After all, you
can always use M-: (string <exp>) RET to force Emacs to show you the
character.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-12 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-11 20:01 bug#19023: 24.4; Long pause when evaluating numeric expression Gareth Rees
2014-11-11 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-11 20:51 ` Gareth Rees
2014-11-11 21:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-11 21:41 ` Gareth Rees
2014-11-12 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-11 22:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-12 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-11-12 2:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-12 2:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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