From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:16:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7e8dd084-7ab9-c2ce-1d6c-e673fa998f11@cs.ucla.edu> <6f720005-b5e4-5d1c-b4e8-a8992c7635c4@cs.ucla.edu> <1c3c61c4-f93f-3bea-f6ed-b89e1cdea89b@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532625310 12663 195.159.176.226 (26 Jul 2018 17:15:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:15:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Andreas Schwab , 32252@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 26 19:15:05 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 1fijqy-00039p-WB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from caladan ([37.186.181.82]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t11-v6sm3040853wru.52.2018.07.26.10.16.03 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:16:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:55:53 -0700") 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:148974 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 26 2018, Paul Eggert wrote: > We're talking about 'format' not 'format-time-string', and Emacs code > does apply 'format' with %x to the tricky little integers that > 'current-time' returns. It's a real hassle, and this hassle is > pervasive in Emacs. Having bignums would simplify it significantly. Where is that code? And why would it be difficult to teach format-time-string to deal with the tricky bits that current-time returns. Helmut