* bug#31579: emacs-lisp-intro.texi - line 1267 - echo area shows `4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)' and not just `4'.
@ 2018-05-24 10:38 Van L
2018-05-24 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Van L @ 2018-05-24 10:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 31579
Hello.
It could say, ``You will see the number @code{4} (and other details in a list) appear in the echo area.''
#+NAME: emacs-lisp-intro.texi
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1257) If you are reading this inside of GNU Emacs in Info, here is how you can
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1258) evaluate such a list: place your cursor immediately after the right
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1259) hand parenthesis of the following list and then type @kbd{C-x C-e}:
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1260)
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1261) @smallexample
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1262) (+ 2 2)
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1263) @end smallexample
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1264)
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1265) @c use code for the number four, not samp.
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1266) @noindent
ef7dbdf5 (Paul Eggert 2015-09-15 1267) You will see the number @code{4} appear in the echo area. (What
ef7dbdf5 (Paul Eggert 2015-09-15 1268) you have just done is evaluate the list. The echo area
ef7dbdf5 (Paul Eggert 2015-09-15 1269) is the line at the bottom of the screen that displays or echoes
8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris 2007-09-06 1270) text.) Now try the same thing with a quoted list: place the cursor
;; `C-x C-e' produces in the echo area `4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)'
;; `C-u C-x C-e' produces `4'
(+ 2 2)
#+END_EXAMPLE
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* bug#31579: emacs-lisp-intro.texi - line 1267 - echo area shows `4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)' and not just `4'.
2018-05-24 10:38 bug#31579: emacs-lisp-intro.texi - line 1267 - echo area shows `4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)' and not just `4' Van L
@ 2018-05-24 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-24 23:56 ` Van L
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2018-05-24 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Van L; +Cc: 31579-done
> From: Van L <van@scratch.space>
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 20:38:12 +1000
>
> It could say, ``You will see the number @code{4} (and other details in a list) appear in the echo area.''
I preferred to describe the other details in a footnote, so that the
text sounds less vague, and thus runs a lower risk of confusing
people.
(The original text evidently wasn't updated when the display of
integer evaluation was changed sometimes during the Emacs 20.x
series.)
Thanks.
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* bug#31579: emacs-lisp-intro.texi - line 1267 - echo area shows `4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)' and not just `4'.
2018-05-24 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2018-05-24 23:56 ` Van L
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Van L @ 2018-05-24 23:56 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 31579-done
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> I preferred to describe the other details in a footnote
Footnotes are fun places.
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