GNU bug report logs - #15747
Patch to optionally display raw bytes in hexadecimal

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>

Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:54:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>
Cc: 15747 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15747: Patch to optionally display raw bytes in hexadecimal
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:58:44 +0200

> From: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:52:55 -0400
> 
> I never understood why raw bytes in emacs are displayed as octal escapes
> rather than hexadecimal.  The latter is much more intuitive to my mind.
> 
> The attached patch adds the option to display these bytes in hex rather
> than octal.  If it's not accepted, please advise what changes I can make
> to give it a better chance.

For some "symmetry" with read-quoted-char-radix, perhaps make the name
something like display-raw-bytes-radix, and make the feature accept
the same values (i.e., 8. 10, and 16).
This bug report was last modified 9 years and 148 days ago.

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