From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Converting an Integer into Human Readable String Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:07:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87wrj5b4qm.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4fa1ed35-b35b-4c8d-bfca-d7fae8da913b@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <71350401EC6C46958001611853D0D855@us.oracle.com> <834o6aufdl.fsf@gnu.org> <8F4245F3ABA84D459CF61965581C8F31@us.oracle.com> <83zko1ucjd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302246550 32229 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2011 07:09:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 07:09:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 08 09:09:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q85oY-0001jL-Ie for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:09:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40231 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q85oX-0002ww-RD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37405 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q85nb-0002us-Tf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q85na-00025A-VY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:08:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q85na-00024p-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q85nW-0001Lu-J2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:08:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 221.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:08:02 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 221.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:08:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/23.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EC0xi0OfxBTHM05ehd7Gg+L5tKQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80694 Archived-At: Klaus Straubinger writes: > Thierry Volpiatto wrote: > >> anything have a function for this: >> >> (anything-ff-human-size 4060) >> ==> "4.0K" > > And there is url-pretty-length from url-util.el (which is part of GNU Emacs): > > (url-pretty-length 4060) > ==> "3k" > > (In this example, the result is "3k" because 4060 is smaller than > 4 * 1024.) Note that all functions that use elisp to get such result fail with: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (url-pretty-length 7141892608) Debugger entered--Lisp error: (overflow-error "7141892608") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- When using big numbers. Same for format-mode-line etc... To avoid that the calc functions can be used giving a string instead of integer. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (anything-ff-human-size "7141892608") ==> "6.7G" (anything-ff-human-size (nth 7 (file-attributes "~/.VirtualBox/Machines/LoseDows.vdi"))) ==> "6.7G" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Would be great elisp handle such numbers. -- A+ Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997