From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: evaluating numbers Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:39:38 +0200 Message-ID: <835zjvg385.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875zjw2emg.fsf@gmx.net> <618B38D9-CD34-4200-8CA1-1A6B0922A83A@traduction-libre.org> <871ruk2d3f.fsf@gmx.net> <3C929D7B-1C10-4713-9EDA-55C80FC36AD8@traduction-libre.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="75666"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 15:52:11 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iSj8s-000JYf-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:52:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43728 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSj8r-0004HG-1k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50015) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSix0-0001Em-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:39:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iSix0-0008Nr-2t; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2467 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iSiwx-0001g6-Kw; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:39:53 -0500 In-reply-to: <3C929D7B-1C10-4713-9EDA-55C80FC36AD8@traduction-libre.org> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:40:26 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:241929 Archived-At: > From: Jean-Christophe Helary > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:40:26 +0900 > > Wouldn't it be more logical to only try the font used in the buffer at stake and give a proper evaluation of the number ? Emacs uses quite a few fonts in the default configuration, and it would be hard to explain why we sometimes display the character and sometimes don't. > How do we expect people to understand that there is a limitation when they don't see anything above 127 ? By reading the documentation? Anyway, this train has left the station: we originally didn't limit the values at all, and always displayed the corresponding character. We changed that because people complained that sometimes evaluating an integer expression takes a long time.