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Re: evaluating numbers
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: evaluating numbers |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:39:38 +0200 |
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:40:26 +0900
>
> Wouldn't it be more logical to only try the font used in the buffer at stake
> and give a proper evaluation of the number ?
Emacs uses quite a few fonts in the default configuration, and it
would be hard to explain why we sometimes display the character and
sometimes don't.
> How do we expect people to understand that there is a limitation when they
> don't see anything above 127 ?
By reading the documentation?
Anyway, this train has left the station: we originally didn't limit
the values at all, and always displayed the corresponding character.
We changed that because people complained that sometimes evaluating an
integer expression takes a long time.
- evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/07
- Re: evaluating numbers, Stephen Berman, 2019/11/07
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/07
- Re: evaluating numbers, Stephen Berman, 2019/11/07
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/07
- Re: evaluating numbers,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/07
- Re: evaluating numbers, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/08
- Re: evaluating numbers, Stefan Monnier, 2019/11/08
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/08
- Re: evaluating numbers, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/09
- Re: evaluating numbers, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/08
- Re: evaluating numbers, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/09
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/09