From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19023: 24.4; Long pause when evaluating numeric expression Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:25:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83zjbxlbk6.fsf@gnu.org> <79C49F77-295B-406F-8B5E-924415706513@garethrees.org> <83y4rhla89.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415744837 28455 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2014 22:27:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19023@debbugs.gnu.org, Gareth Rees To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 23:27:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJtA-0003vq-HO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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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. --=20 (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no