GNU bug report logs - #16828
24.3.50; eval-expression, character representation of integer results time-consuming

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:02:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Merged with 19023, 21131, 23930

Found in versions 24.3.50, 24.4, 25.0.95

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #50 received at 16828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16828: 24.3.50;
 eval-expression, character representation of integer results
 time-consuming
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:55:44 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> >
>> > So, under this proposal, is there any way to get the character for a
>> > single invocation of M-:, without setting the option, if I only need
>> > that sometimes?  Should there be such a way?
>> 
>> Isn't M-: (prin1-char value) sufficient?
>
> No, not after years of using "M-: #xNNNN RET".

If you want to keep muscle memory,

    (setq eval-expression-print-maximum-character most-positive-fixnum)

should give you back the old behaviour.  If you only want this only some
of the time, perhaps we should add a toggle-print-maximum-character
command?
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 3 days ago.

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