From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 19:47:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8765b2g9x5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BNWIF-0008SK-U1@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 11 May 2004 08:23:31 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> The bug exists because the range of integers is greater
> and there are bits above the character flags. So I put the
> change below into casefiddle.c.
I tested your change, and it works.
> I remember it was agreed some time ago that by default C-x C-e should
> not display numbers as characters to avoid all related problems.
>
> Who agreed on that?
There was discussion on emacs-pretest-bug three month ago,
where people expressed dissatisfaction with this feature.
> It seems to me that this feature is useful and harmless, and that the
> extra complexity of adding an option to disable it is not worth while.
> We have to fix these bugs anyway, so the option won't save us any work.
This feature is not harmless, because often it causes a window system
to load unnecessary fonts to memory to display some unrelated characters.
And also when it displays strange characters, it confuses users.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-06 20:08 printing most-negative-fixnum fails Peter Whaite
2004-05-11 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-11 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-11 16:57 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-12 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 12:23 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 16:47 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2004-05-14 9:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-14 11:46 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-15 8:17 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-15 8:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-15 9:19 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-15 20:03 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-18 13:03 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-19 8:36 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-15 8:09 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-15 18:34 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-15 19:32 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-12 1:41 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-12 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-12 4:43 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-11 2:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-11 3:11 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-05-11 4:26 ` Kenichi Handa
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