From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About "set bits" Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:37:19 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <20130410214627.6ca217f53415c0c6d1837edd@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365624869 28177 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2013 20:14:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:14:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 10 22:14:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UQ1Pa-0003VO-Cr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:14:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQ1PZ-0000am-T6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:14:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder2.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="2140"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196mASjh0lWnZ3pit57+67V" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pkjph7Cy6gYydtBMBjT5jGYohi4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197797 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:14:07 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90068 Archived-At: In article , Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:46:27 +0800 > > From: Xue Fuqiao > > > > In (info "(elisp) Bindat Spec"): > > > > `bits LEN' > > List of set bits in LEN bytes. The bytes are taken in big endian > > order and the bits are numbered starting with `8 * LEN - 1' and > > ending with zero. For example: `bits 2' unpacks `#x28' `#x1c' to > > `(2 3 4 11 13)' and `#x1c' `#x28' to `(3 5 10 11 12)'. > > > > I don't know what "set bits" means here. > > It means bits that are set, i.e. their value is 1. Xue's questions about documentation often seem to suggest that he doesn't know how to parse English. He frequently tries to interpret phrases as computer or Emacs jargon, when they just have the meaning the words imply. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***