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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.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 23:25:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fvdpxtls.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y4rhla89.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:04:54 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> But normally when I evaluate a numeric expression, I do not want to
>> see a character—I’m just using M-: as a calculator
>
> But Emacs doesn't (and cannot) know what you want.

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?

In my experience, I've never wanted to know the octal value or the
corresponding Unicode codepoint of the integer.  I have found the hex
value useful, I think, once.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-11 22:25 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 [this message]
2014-11-12  1:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-12  2:04           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-12  2:06           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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