From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is X'ABCD' notation of general interest? (was: Converting strings of hexadecimal numbers to the respective bytes) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:24:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4e8b531d-ecc7-4b71-ac69-faa82eccd4ae@c9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <45202d31-fd33-4b35-9bb7-fe4af6eb4012@c9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239280212 24220 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2009 12:30:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: florian Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 09 14:31:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LrtPc-0003Fs-SV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43666 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LrtOE-0003aR-4P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrtJE-0008Tv-4H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrtJ8-0008PW-70 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42688 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LrtJ6-0008P6-MC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f160.google.com ([209.85.219.160]:44987) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LrtJ6-0005Nw-Cm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so754144ewy.42 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:24:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5RxLEEJZUIzmSCVhKocEe19cXpzrm09nlb4OudqM4f0=; b=Yx/eq03bPiDSIs1d83aIKiD2yKjKXQIvZY9KpHE/UkmJe6WYH+Ew8pWwvjtqH7bx4i DD9AAh+VAffqRoTKIFqUAJ24yQmqSYqoayPAmRy/teMC9DdoyoLB9Qy6Y7q+tbvV8wdF AKC+Kbb76RzXNyl/OFJZQ8gog6MLidwIZTCl8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dFWUh7pBfowEorgWQNezXUCshTKIJfa0g4E46lMHQ9ILCE5o1vKu3rVjPG4a1CiPej JtDD0Ai7Krj4DkGKGgjBGOmlOGvDBqjKh2LwLjJnvpnav4rjNMmup3zqYhtmWzeS8ojd zBzuGcp2pHKDXZVa0tEDT+0AzDfCBKiWO9FSo= Original-Received: by 10.211.196.13 with SMTP id y13mr2017334ebp.79.1239279870917; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:24:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45202d31-fd33-4b35-9bb7-fe4af6eb4012@c9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:63605 Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:05, florian wrote: > many thanks. I swear I did RTFM, or rather rummage it, but I obviously > missed that important bit. Don't worry, I can't count the number of times I've read and re-read an info page, only to miss the important bit (or sometimes, and more embarrassingly, a whole paragraph ;-) > Does anybody think that functions to handle that (I have round-trip > tested them) would be of general interest, so that posting them on > gnu.emacs.sources would make sense? (Just don't want to clutter public > space needlessly.) Just post them. That's what gnu.emacs.sources is for. Juanma