Re: evaluating numbers

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>]

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> On Nov 7, 2019, at 18:57, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 18:43:40 +0900 Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
> 
>> A while ago the biggest number that evaluated to a character (that I could not
>> display) was 1114111 (evaluated to "?􏿿 ").
>> 
>> Now, I can only go up to 127 (#o177, #x7f, ?\C-?) and 128 evaluates to (#o200,
>> #x80) which looks like the ASCII character set, but I was under the impression
>> that Emacs had its own character set...
>> 
>> What's going on here ?
> 
> This:
> 
>  eval-expression-print-maximum-character is a variable defined in ‘simple.el’.
>  Its value is 127
> 
>    You can customize this variable.
> 
> 
>  This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
>  version 26.1 of Emacs.
>    Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 26.1.

Thank you very much.

What's the rationale behind this change ?

I find that's a bit silly to limit the character set range available with this evaluation.

Anybody knows ?


Jean-Christophe Helary
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