From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ascii character typeing Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:58:00 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1153217054.336610.9850@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <87ejwhofsj.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87ac75mjnw.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <91aa7$44c143a4$49ede01$14044@DIALUPUSA.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153519158 17924 80.91.229.2 (21 Jul 2006 21:59:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:59:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 21 23:59:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G431X-0002Bm-IY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:59:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G431X-000543-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G431L-00053u-Mu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:58:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G431J-00053h-C4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:58:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G431J-00053e-4d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:58:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G431n-00083f-Nd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G431A-00027S-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:58:44 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:58:44 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:58:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <91aa7$44c143a4$49ede01$14044@DIALUPUSA.NET> 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:36150 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: > Or if you don't have the loop and do functions, this kludge will work: > > (defun ascii () > (interactive) > (setq i 0) > (while (<= i 255) > (when (zerop (mod i 8)) (insert "\n")) > (insert (format " %3d %c " i i)) > (setq i (1+ i)) > ) > ) ;; maybe let i would work here instead of setq i. > > For some reason it doesn't produce a glyph for chars 128-159, only the > octal code \nnn. This is really out of the ascii range but so is 160 to > 255, for which I see the glyphs. I doubt your buffer uses the us-ascii coding system. `C-h v buffer-file-coding-system' to see what it does use. What you see displayed also depends on whether the font includes a glyph at each code point. -- Kevin