Re: (read (current-buffer)) returns an integer in a buffer full of text?

["Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 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 ...

I made a mistake, mine is 134,217,727 too.  I was trying exponents of 2
which is wrong!

I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3, in this version of Emacs there is no variable
called "most-positive-fixnum" loaded by default. This variable is in
the CL package.