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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: warrend@Tektronix.com, 6374@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6374: 23.2; manual language fixes
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:30:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OMd9X-000721-GO@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0ljanlbjg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:08:35 -0400)

> Cc: Warren L Dodge <warrend@Tektronix.com>,  6374@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:08:35 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Emacs supports radix values beyond 16, so a-f is not enough.  It's
> > actually a-z.
> 
> Is the doc-string of read-quoted-char-radix (which is what the manual
> section in question is talking about) wrong then?

No, it's not wrong.

>   Legitimate radix values are 8, 10 and 16
> 
> These are also the only choices allowed when customizing
> read-quoted-char-radix.

I don't think we should rewrite the manual for a simple extension of
the current capabilities, when it is done.  The Lisp reader already
supports any radix up to 36.  So the intentionally vague language in
the manual seems fine to me.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-10  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08  0:45 bug#6374: 23.2; manual language fixes Warren L Dodge
2010-06-08  2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-08  3:05   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-08  3:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-08  3:50       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-08  9:15         ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-06-10  5:08   ` Glenn Morris
2010-06-10  8:16     ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-10  8:30     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-06-11  3:34       ` Glenn Morris

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