From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 11:17:29 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k6zeje91.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <200405062008.i46K8x4R015248@brains.moreideas.ca> <87vfj3g1kv.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8765b2g9x5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200405141146.UAA17752@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084609449 17542 80.91.224.253 (15 May 2004 08:24:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 08:24:09 +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 Sat May 15 10:23:59 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 1BOuSd-0002lz-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 10:23:59 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOuSc-00043I-01 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 10:23:59 +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 1BOuOd-0000nj-BI for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:19:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOuOY-0000nK-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOuO2-0000hq-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:19:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.19] (helo=spoon.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOuO1-0000hn-Sw; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-42-9-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.42.9]) by spoon.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E766C13D81E; Sat, 15 May 2004 01:19:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-Reply-To: <200405141146.UAA17752@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Fri, 14 May 2004 20:46:35 +0900 (JST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:23468 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23468 Kenichi Handa writes: > For non-ASCII chars, print only charset name, or print > something like below: > > 53794 = (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208 36 34) Interesting idea! Instead of a character to print information about it. But is it possible to print full information about a character which will allow the user to identify it easily and unambiguously? Character names from the Unicode data file would be ideal, but this file is not distributed with Emacs. > And make C-u C-u C-x C-e show a real character. It's very > unfortunate that we can't use C-u C-x C-e for that (I've > never used it). M-: and edebug also need a method of switching the character format. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/