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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Converting an Integer into Human Readable String
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:01:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjttc2d0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83zko1ucjd.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:13:07 -0700
>> 
>> In any case, what I wrote was incorrect.  AFAICT there is no way to pass the
>> number that is to be interpreted as the buffer size by "%I", except by passing
>> an actual BUFFER of the given size as arg.  This will do it, I guess, but it
>> seems a bit silly:
>
> Yes, but this isn't:
>
>   (ls-lisp-format-file-size 4060 t) => "   4k"
>
> Of course, on Posix platforms you will need to (require 'ls-lisp)
> first, which is undesirable.  Hmm...
>
> It would make sense to extract the workhorse of
> ls-lisp-format-file-size and make it a separate function in subr.el.
> Patches welcome.

anything have a function for this:

(anything-ff-human-size 4060)
==> "4.0K"

-- 
A+ Thierry
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-07 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-07 10:02 Converting an Integer into Human Readable String Nordlöw
2011-04-07 11:34 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-07 12:04   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 12:51 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-07 17:43   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 18:13     ` Drew Adams
2011-04-07 18:35       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 18:51         ` Drew Adams
2011-04-07 20:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 18:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 19:01         ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
     [not found]         ` <mailman.17.1302204476.27822.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-08  6:35           ` Klaus Straubinger
2011-04-08  7:07             ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-08  8:29               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08  9:38                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-08 11:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-04-08 15:19   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08 19:12     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-08 21:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09  5:24         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-09  8:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1.1302338931.20547.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-09  9:33     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-04-09 12:13       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.0.1302351322.29796.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-11 15:31         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-11 16:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-12 19:30           ` Ted Zlatanov

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