From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bind print-integers-as-characters to t in `describe-variable'?
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 12:13:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <945DC9F4-7316-4B0F-B507-8B914B6A9FC4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eda3ju61.fsf@gmail.com>
15 maj 2024 kl. 11.33 skrev Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>:
> It makes the display of eg `electric-quote-chars' much more readable
And `fill-column` much less readable. On balance, the loss of readability for numbers that are not characters seems to outweigh the gain for those that are.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-15 10:13 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 [this message]
2024-05-15 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 5:46 ` Philip Kaludercic
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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