From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How switch from escaped octal character code to escaped HEX?
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:42:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-18772A.08423303012011@62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8.1294038895.27854.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.8.1294038895.27854.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the reasoning behind displaying it in octal rather than
> decimal or hexadecimal in the first place? I didn't know people cared
> about octals anymore.
I think it's historical. The original MIT developers tended to use
octal more than hex.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-28 15:39 How switch from escaped octal character code to escaped HEX? Oleksandr Gavenko
2010-12-28 15:51 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
[not found] ` <mailman.6.1293551515.18545.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 4:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-03 7:14 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-03 10:13 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-03 14:37 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-01-04 4:03 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1294038895.27854.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 13:42 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2011-01-11 10:23 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1294741438.20926.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-11 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-12 9:22 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
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