Re: bind print-integers-as-characters to t in `describe-variable'?

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>,
>>   rpluim@gmail.com,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 05:46:21 +0000
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 12:13:49 +0200
>> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> >> 
>> >> We could have stateful buttons controlling the display, which could
>> >> also include things like printing numbers in hex and control chars
>> >> in strings as escape sequences.
>> >
>> > Or maybe the doc string could provide meta-data about how to display
>> > such values?
>> 
>> Why not bind it depending on the type of the user option?
>
> How do you tell "the type of the user option"?

E.g. using (get 'fill-column 'custom-type) ;=> integer

As a heuristic, one could check if a type consists just of characters
(e.g. a character, a list of characters, etc.) and only then bind
`print-integers-as-characters'.

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