From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Converting an Integer into Human Readable String Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:10:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83y63lu8js.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4fa1ed35-b35b-4c8d-bfca-d7fae8da913b@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <71350401EC6C46958001611853D0D855@us.oracle.com> <834o6aufdl.fsf@gnu.org> <8F4245F3ABA84D459CF61965581C8F31@us.oracle.com> <831v1dvrjf.fsf@gnu.org> <65FF0AF211E94548813FED81190D42C5@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302207190 10992 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2011 20:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:13:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 22:13:06 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7vZi-000168-FM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:13:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7vZh-0000zi-Qb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39118 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7vZH-0000z9-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:12:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7vZG-0002PO-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:12:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:58639) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7vZF-0002Ow-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:12:38 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LJA00200T905A00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:12:35 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.239.68]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LJA001PKTGWDYC0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:12:34 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <65FF0AF211E94548813FED81190D42C5@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:80681 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:51:52 -0700 > > > > > Beware: this has side effects. It doesn't just return a string. > > > What side effects? Where are they documented? > > It affects the display. In the ELisp manual. > > Can you be more specific? Do you mean node `Emulating Mode Line'? Yes. > AFAICT, the only thing it says about display happening (side effects) is in the > final Note and the example following it. That is, the only case it mentions > (AFAICT) where display actually happens is if you pass one of "`mode-line', > `mode-line-inactive', or `header-line' as FACE". Or t. > Did you have something else in mind, or was that it? Is this text exhaustive > wrt side effects, or is it missing something? That text says all I know about the issue.