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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: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:52:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz07z133.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19079.19477.34624.793366@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> (Eli Barzilay's message of "Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:00:21 -0400")

>   A prefix of
>     1 (or just C-u) -> output a plain number into the buffer
>     2 -> number + alternative radix outputs into the buffer
>     3 -> number + alternates + character into the buffer
>     -1, -2, -3 -> same as above, but for the echo area
>   And the above always behaves the same.
>
>   *No* prefix means:
>     show the plain number output in the echo area on first use
>     number + alternates on second use (with no prefix, of course)
>     number + alternates + character on the third use.

Then maybe the same scheme should be applied to `eval-expression'
(`M-:') as well.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/





  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17  0:52 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
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 [this message]
2009-08-17  3:18                   ` Eli Barzilay
2016-06-15  0:35 ` Noam Postavsky

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