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Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails |
Date: |
Tue, 11 May 2004 19:47:59 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> The bug exists because the range of integers is greater
> and there are bits above the character flags. So I put the
> change below into casefiddle.c.
I tested your change, and it works.
> I remember it was agreed some time ago that by default C-x C-e should
> not display numbers as characters to avoid all related problems.
>
> Who agreed on that?
There was discussion on emacs-pretest-bug three month ago,
where people expressed dissatisfaction with this feature.
> It seems to me that this feature is useful and harmless, and that the
> extra complexity of adding an option to disable it is not worth while.
> We have to fix these bugs anyway, so the option won't save us any work.
This feature is not harmless, because often it causes a window system
to load unnecessary fonts to memory to display some unrelated characters.
And also when it displays strange characters, it confuses users.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Peter Whaite, 2004/05/06
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/10
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/11
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/14
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Kenichi Handa, 2004/05/14
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/15
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/15
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, David Kastrup, 2004/05/15
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/15
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Kenichi Handa, 2004/05/18
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/19
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/15
- Re: printing most-negative-fixnum fails, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/15