Re: How to configure edebug not to print characters?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:39:14 -0400
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > since I don't need it 99.9% of the time, I wonder if it is possible
> > to make edebug display:
> > 
> >   Result: 24549 (#o57745, #x5fe5)
> > 
> > instead.
> 
> The format of that display is a feature of
> eval-expression-print-format, which see.  You can hack it if you want,
> but I would suggest to add a customizable option to control that.

Alternatively, if you customize print-escape-multibyte to a non-nil
value, the character will be represented by an escape rather than
itself, which could speed things up for you.