From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>,
rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bind print-integers-as-characters to t in `describe-variable'?
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 05:46:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xve71hu.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v83fthjb.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 15 May 2024 14:56:40 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 12:13:49 +0200
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> We could have stateful buttons controlling the display, which could
>> also include things like printing numbers in hex and control chars
>> in strings as escape sequences.
>
> Or maybe the doc string could provide meta-data about how to display
> such values?
Why not bind it depending on the type of the user option?
electric-quote-chars is (list character character character character),
fill-column is integer, for example.
--
Philip Kaludercic on peregrine
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-16 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-15 9:33 bind print-integers-as-characters to t in `describe-variable'? Robert Pluim
2024-05-15 10:13 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-05-15 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 5:46 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2024-05-16 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 9:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-05-16 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 9:08 ` Robert Pluim
2024-05-15 12:32 ` Robert Pluim
2024-05-15 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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