From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (read (current-buffer)) returns an integer in a buffer full of text? Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:07:20 +0100 Message-ID: <98C78D68-7588-41A9-8BEC-66F8827E8CBF@Web.DE> References: <1164303070.530993.199230@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1164724454.191296.147930@14g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1164809864.480422.120420@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> <1164826015.398581.93250@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164830883 31829 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2006 20:08:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:08:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 21:08:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpViX-0001Ni-UE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:07:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpViX-0001Dx-FU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:07:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpViJ-0001Cw-Ar for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:07:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpViH-0001BT-K7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:07:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpViG-0001B4-KA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:07:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.234] (helo=fmmailgate03.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GpViG-000680-7P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:07:24 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1AB3F7129B; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:07:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [84.245.170.36] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1GpViE-0005ny-00; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:07:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1164826015.398581.93250@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: Robert Thorpe X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39108 Archived-At: Am 29.11.2006 um 19:46 schrieb Robert Thorpe: > You must be using a CVS version of Emacs. My version does not have > that variable and it certainly isn't that high. GNU Emacs 20.7 had already 134,217,727 = 2^27 - 1. I remember a mailing from last year, I think, in which the incremental progress of most-positive-fixnum was described in some detail. In my version of GNU Emacs 21.3.50 (the developer version of 21.4) it is 2^28 - 1 ... -- Greetings Pete "Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one that corrupts your file?" -- Dan Jacobson, on comp.os.linux.advocacy