From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#44155: Print integers as characters Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:30:37 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <874km6q1ua.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <871rhd3peq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <608FF40B-D8F6-471E-8036-4779D892E987@acm.org> <87imanigpd.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17721"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 44155@debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab To: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 03 09:32:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kZrkK-0004Uk-CU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:32:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48146 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kZrkJ-0001Po-EW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:32:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48810) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kZrjV-0000gh-VG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:32:01 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:59969) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kZrjV-0003vd-K9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:32:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kZrjV-00076A-I1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:32:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 08:32:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 44155 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed patch Original-Received: via spool by 44155-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B44155.160439231127267 (code B ref 44155); Tue, 03 Nov 2020 08:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 44155) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Nov 2020 08:31:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43282 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kZrjL-00075j-ER for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:31:51 -0500 Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.197]:55973) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kZrjJ-00075V-3W for 44155@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:31:49 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.102.160 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-102-160.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.102.160]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7AE221C0019; Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:31:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: ("Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?="'s message of "Tue, 3 Nov 2020 00:03:31 +0100") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:192592 Archived-At: >> Hopefully, printing some characters as numbers will fix >> the currently broken test. > > It does! Here is a proposed patch. We could add a separate radix control later if you like. Thanks, I like your patch, hope that Eli will like it too. > One detail that I'm undecided about is whether to remove the more obscure > control escapes \f, \a, \v, \e and \d, on the grounds that they are less > likely to be used as actual characters and that users may prefer to see > them as numbers instead. C, and most languages inheriting them from C, lack > \e or \d; \f and \a are rare today, and \v is an anachronism. I don't think that \f is rare, it's used as a page separator in many Emacs Lisp files. But it would be surprising to me to see 127 printed as ?\d, maybe because C lacks it.