From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: evaluating numbers
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 11:30:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ruk2d3f.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <618B38D9-CD34-4200-8CA1-1A6B0922A83A@traduction-libre.org> (Jean-Christophe Helary's message of "Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:20:23 +0900")
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On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:20:23 +0900 Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
>> On Nov 7, 2019, at 18:57, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 18:43:40 +0900 Jean-Christophe Helary
>> <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
>>
>>> A while ago the biggest number that evaluated to a character (that I could not
>>> display) was 1114111 (evaluated to "?ô¿¿ ").
>>>
>>> Now, I can only go up to 127 (#o177, #x7f, ?\C-?) and 128 evaluates to (#o200,
>>> #x80) which looks like the ASCII character set, but I was under the impression
>>> that Emacs had its own character set...
>>>
>>> What's going on here ?
>>
>> This:
>>
>> eval-expression-print-maximum-character is a variable defined in âsimple.elâ.
>> Its value is 127
>>
>> You can customize this variable.
>>
>>
>> This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
>> version 26.1 of Emacs.
>> Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 26.1.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> What's the rationale behind this change ?
>
> I find that's a bit silly to limit the character set range available with this
> evaluation.
>
> Anybody knows ?
I think the main rationale was that it could take a long time for Emacs
to return the evaluation when the system had a lot of fonts installed,
because Emacs would try them all to display the character.
Steve Berman
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Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 9:43 evaluating numbers Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-07 9:57 ` Stephen Berman
2019-11-07 10:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-07 10:30 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2019-11-07 10:40 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-07 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 0:36 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-08 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 12:23 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-08 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-09 0:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-09 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 0:15 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-09 7:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 11:18 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-09 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-10 0:59 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-10 8:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-10 20:52 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-12 20:28 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-12 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-12 22:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-12 23:30 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-13 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-13 14:47 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-14 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 22:50 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-14 23:40 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-11-15 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 9:46 ` Yuri Khan
2019-11-14 11:36 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-14 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-14 13:59 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-11-14 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-14 21:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-14 14:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-14 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 17:10 ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-14 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 8:32 ` Štěpán Němec
2019-11-15 14:54 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 15:55 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:00 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15 16:33 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-17 20:02 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-18 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 16:54 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-18 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-20 13:00 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-20 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-20 17:09 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-20 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 6:08 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-19 9:50 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 15:53 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 16:43 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-16 20:40 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-17 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 21:16 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-14 22:56 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-09 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-10 0:22 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-10 4:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-13 23:02 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-14 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-14 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 11:35 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-14 13:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-11-14 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 10:36 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-15 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 14:52 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-28 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 17:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 23:16 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 0:08 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 0:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 8:00 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 3:23 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-29 3:49 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 3:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-29 10:09 ` Po Lu
2020-04-30 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-30 3:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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