Re: bind print-integers-as-characters to t in `describe-variable'?

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 16 May 2024 11:45:37 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
    >> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>,
    >> rpluim@gmail.com,
    >> emacs-devel@gnu.org
    >> Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 05:46:21 +0000
    >> 
    >> 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?

    Eli> How do you tell "the type of the user option"?

(get 'electric-quote-chars 'custom-type)
=> (list character character character character)

Robert
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