From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 05:20:41 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200405062008.i46K8x4R015248@brains.moreideas.ca> <87vfj3g1kv.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8765b2g9x5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084527211 17597 80.91.224.253 (14 May 2004 09:33:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 14 11:33:25 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 1BOZ4H-00079l-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 11:33:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOZ4H-0000Ha-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 11:33:25 +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 1BOYzr-0001Av-Is for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 05:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOYsb-0007g4-WA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 05:21:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOYs1-0006kB-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 05:21:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOYry-0006hX-Up for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 05:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BOYrx-0008NG-1a; Fri, 14 May 2004 05:20:41 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <8765b2g9x5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 11 May 2004 19:47:59 +0300) 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:23392 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23392 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?