From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Cc: 4118@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4118: 23.1; eval-last-sexp-print-value is inconvenient
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:33:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxbvp9e5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19075.27103.685992.984191@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> (Eli Barzilay's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:18:23 -0400")
>> But it inserts other representations only when you type `C-x C-e' twice.
>> Do you mean you don't want this after the second `C-x C-e' key press?
>
> Hmm, I see that the reason for what I've seen is that I'm using it
> indirectly through my own function, and for some reason
> `eval-expression-print-format' decides whether to do its thing based
> on the current command. This looks like an odd interface... A better
> and more consistent interface seems to me to always print the extra
> information unless it goes into a buffer -- something like:
>
> (defun eval-expression-print-format (value)
> ...
> (if (and (integerp value) (not (bufferp standard-output)))
> ...))
The reason not to print the extra information on the first invocation of
`eval-last-sexp' is the following. Most often users want to see the integer
result of the evaluated expression, but the extra information also contains
a character representation of this integer that might print some unrelated
character that might load some weird fonts the user doesn't want to load.
> But you seem to suggest that there are practical uses to get that
> extra stuff into the buffer? I don't see any occasion that would make
> it desirable...
When the current buffer contains an integer, typing `C-x C-e' twice
inserts it to the same buffer as a character. However, this is
not too convenient, so I'd like to improve this interface.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-13 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 10:55 bug#4118: 23.1; eval-last-sexp-print-value is inconvenient Eli Barzilay
2009-08-12 20:57 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-13 1:18 ` Eli Barzilay
2009-08-13 23:33 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-08-14 1:25 ` Eli Barzilay
2009-08-14 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-15 1:38 ` Eli Barzilay
2009-08-15 23:16 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-16 0:00 ` Eli Barzilay
2009-08-17 0:52 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-17 3:18 ` Eli Barzilay
2016-06-15 0:35 ` Noam Postavsky
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