From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Converting an Integer into Human Readable String
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:10:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y63lu8js.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65FF0AF211E94548813FED81190D42C5@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:51:52 -0700
>
> > > > Beware: this has side effects. It doesn't just return a string.
> > > What side effects? Where are they documented?
> > It affects the display. In the ELisp manual.
>
> Can you be more specific? Do you mean node `Emulating Mode Line'?
Yes.
> AFAICT, the only thing it says about display happening (side effects) is in the
> final Note and the example following it. That is, the only case it mentions
> (AFAICT) where display actually happens is if you pass one of "`mode-line',
> `mode-line-inactive', or `header-line' as FACE".
Or t.
> Did you have something else in mind, or was that it? Is this text exhaustive
> wrt side effects, or is it missing something?
That text says all I know about the issue.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-07 10:02 Converting an Integer into Human Readable String Nordlöw
2011-04-07 11:34 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-07 12:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 12:51 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-07 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 18:13 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-07 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 18:51 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-07 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-07 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 19:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.17.1302204476.27822.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-08 6:35 ` Klaus Straubinger
2011-04-08 7:07 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-08 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08 9:38 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-08 11:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-04-08 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08 19:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-08 21:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 5:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-09 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1302338931.20547.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-09 9:33 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-04-09 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1302351322.29796.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-11 15:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-11 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-12 19:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
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