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Re: About "set bits"
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Xue Fuqiao |
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Re: About "set bits" |
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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:20:16 +0800 |
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:39:17 +0200
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> wrote:
> () Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
> () Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:19:54 -0400
>
> True, these phrases can be ambiguous. But often the context and
> examples help quite a bit in figuring out the intent. In this case,
> there were a couple of examples; "bits" tells you to think in binary,
> and if you examined the binary values of the examples it should
> quickly become apparent what was meant.
>
> Yes, i think if OP were to try more stuff in *scratch*, such questions
> could be avoided.
Agreed. Although I prefer *ielm*.
> In this case, i wrote examples that (to me) seem easy to inspect and
> mentally verify, so that *scratch* is not even necessary.
But I'm not familiar with binary files and binary code, I don't where to
start.
> Let's hope people will step forward and improve the docs over time.)
That's true. Although my English isn't very good, I'd be glad to
improve/refine the documentation for Emacs, like proof-reading the
manuals and adding documentation about some packages/features that
aren't mentioned in the manuals.
--
Xue Fuqiao
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/