From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bind print-integers-as-characters to t in `describe-variable'?
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 14:32:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cfvjlxa.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <945DC9F4-7316-4B0F-B507-8B914B6A9FC4@gmail.com> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Wed, 15 May 2024 12:13:49 +0200")
>>>>> On Wed, 15 May 2024 12:13:49 +0200, Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> said:
Mattias> 15 maj 2024 kl. 11.33 skrev Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>:
>> It makes the display of eg `electric-quote-chars' much more readable
Mattias> And `fill-column` much less readable. On balance, the
Mattias> loss of readability for numbers that are not characters
Mattias> seems to outweigh the gain for those that are.
We could add a limit to print-integers-as-characters above which it
takes effect (default '0').
Or we could look at the custom-type of the variable to see if it is or
contains 'character'.
Mattias> We could have stateful buttons controlling the display,
Mattias> which could also include things like printing numbers in
Mattias> hex and control chars in strings as escape sequences.
Iʼm not entirely sure youʼre being serious here :-) , but that seems
like overkill.
Robert
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-15 9:33 bind print-integers-as-characters to t in `describe-variable'? Robert Pluim
2024-05-15 10:13 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-05-15 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 5:46 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-05-16 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 9:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-05-16 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-16 9:08 ` Robert Pluim
2024-05-15 12:32 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2024-05-15 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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