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: Sat, 15 May 2004 04:53:48 -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> <200405141146.UAA17752@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084611652 20837 80.91.224.253 (15 May 2004 09:00:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 09:00:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs@whaite.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 15 11:00:39 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 1BOv27-0003r4-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 11:00:39 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOv27-0004jh-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 11:00:39 +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 1BOuy5-0007bi-DB for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOuwK-00071D-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:54:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOuvW-0005un-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOuvU-0005t4-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BOuvU-0007B4-6q; Sat, 15 May 2004 04:53:48 -0400 Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-reply-to: <200405141146.UAA17752@etlken.m17n.org> (message from Kenichi Handa on Fri, 14 May 2004 20:46:35 +0900 (JST)) 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:23472 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23472 For non-ASCII chars, print only charset name, or print something like below: 53794 = (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208 36 34) That might be a good approach. And make C-u C-u C-x C-e show a real character. A simpler idea: we could make C-j on that make-char expression do it. C-j could look at the expression to be evaluated, and if it is a call to make-char, it could show the character (in the same way it does now).