Subject: Re: bug#20691: 24.5; `eval-expression' doesn't conform to its docstring

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:32:58 +0300

> From: Nicolas Richard <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:09:14 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Vasilij Schneidermann <[email-masked]> writes:
> > "M-: 5 7 RET" displays "57 (#o71, #x39, ?9) in the echo area.
> 
> Indeed, I was wrong, sorry. I don't know what was intended, but I guess
> it's a docbug.

Yes, we should fix the documentation.  The code was working like since
longer than I can remember.