From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 05:20:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BOYrx-0008NG-1a@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8765b2g9x5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 11 May 2004 19:47:59 +0300)
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.
Beginning users don't do lots of interactive Lisp evals, so I don't
think we need to worry so much about confusing them. Loading the
fonts might be a more serious issue. However, adding an option is a
very undesirable way to solve such a problem. It is costly in complexity
and will leave many users unsatisfied.
Can anyone think of another idea for how to avoid the problem?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-14 9:20 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
2004-05-14 9:20 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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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