From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: evaluating numbers Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:39:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83imnm480f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875zjw2emg.fsf@gmx.net> <618B38D9-CD34-4200-8CA1-1A6B0922A83A@traduction-libre.org> <871ruk2d3f.fsf@gmx.net> <3C929D7B-1C10-4713-9EDA-55C80FC36AD8@traduction-libre.org> <835zjvg385.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgmyd6rw.fsf@gnu.org> <835zjucwbz.fsf@gnu.org> <628A3663-BDD3-47C5-B4F4-E260FD900691@traduction-libre.org> <83o8xla50f.fsf@gnu.org> <8336ex9sow.fsf@gnu.org> <4836980E-C425-466C-BB86-5E962C4B3F96@traduction-libre.org> <83zhgy7qxq.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfsi5z1s.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="16189"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 14 19:41:43 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iVK3q-000436-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:41:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60674 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iVK3p-0004kg-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:41:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48604) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iVK2G-0004kR-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:40:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iVK2E-00034C-Jz; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:40:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1509 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iVK2D-0000ER-IK; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:40:02 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:10:02 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242190 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:10:02 -0800 > Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > The behavior that Yuri's suggesting would be more convenient to me > than what Emacs currently does, as I often deal with characters > where it's more important to know the character's name than what it > looks like. The right way of doing this is "C-u C-x =". And if we think that this shows way too much info, I'm OK with modifying "C-x =" to show the character name as an optional feature. These are commands that were specifically designed to describe text; doing that as part of integer evaluation is too general for that.