bug#31614: Off Topic

[Noam Postavsky]

On 28 May 2018 at 11:18, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> But I see there is no way to get a plain '4' except by (setq
>> eval-expression-print-maximum-character nil), which is kind of an
>> accident.
>
> I don't think it's an accident, I think it's a very useful feature, as
> one doesn't need to format the value specially when one needs hex or
> octal string representation.

I mean, it's an accident that setting that variable to nil causes C-x
C-e to not echo hex or octal.