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 22:32:44 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n049fpur.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <200405062008.i46K8x4R015248@brains.moreideas.ca> <87vfj3g1kv.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8765b2g9x5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87sme2jen0.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084650244 20455 80.91.224.253 (15 May 2004 19:44:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 19:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 15 21:43:55 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 1BP54d-0001N1-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 21:43:55 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BP54d-0002Il-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 21:43:55 +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 1BP51p-0002nP-Sl for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 15:41:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BP51J-0002bo-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 15:40:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BP50m-0002UF-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 15:40:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.6] (helo=knife.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BP50m-0002UB-Bc; Sat, 15 May 2004 15:39:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-40-24-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.40.24]) by knife.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA21E4046; Sat, 15 May 2004 12:39:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 15 May 2004 14:34:23 -0400") 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:23507 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23507 Richard Stallman writes: > Let's instead use Handa's suggestion. I think it will > avoid all the problems. Handa's suggestion was about the default value. But such formatting function is still needed. Merely for the purpose of not duplicating the same formatting code in different places (C-x C-e, M-:, edebug). The fact that it will allow easy customization is a good side-effect of adding this function. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/