From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:03:49 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200405181303.WAA10648@etlken.m17n.org> References: <200405062008.i46K8x4R015248@brains.moreideas.ca> <87vfj3g1kv.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8765b2g9x5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200405141146.UAA17752@etlken.m17n.org> <87isexbgpd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084892488 15784 80.91.224.253 (18 May 2004 15:01:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 17:01:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQ65X-000348-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 17:01:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQ65X-00050D-01 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 17:01:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQ63t-0006s5-PA for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQ63N-0006rY-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQ62q-0006ly-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:58:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQ4GC-00050L-1z; Tue, 18 May 2004 09:03:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4ID3oQ12972; Tue, 18 May 2004 22:03:50 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by fs.m17n.org (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4ID3nW22884; Tue, 18 May 2004 22:03:49 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id WAA10648; Tue, 18 May 2004 22:03:49 +0900 (JST) Original-To: juri@jurta.org In-reply-to: <87isexbgpd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 15 May 2004 23:03:59 +0300) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23629 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23629 In article <87isexbgpd.fsf@mail.jurta.org>, Juri Linkov writes: > Even simpler idea: if the value will be printed in three basic > representations (decimal, octal and hex), then to see a real character > the user can type somewhere one of these numbers with a C-q prefix > depending on the value of `read-quoted-char-radix'. It's not easy (at least for me) to remeber 4 or more (hex) numbers. If we can ask user to do that, much more simpler idea is to print only in decimal form and ask user to type M-: (string DECIMAL) to see a real character. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org