GNU bug report logs - #27270
display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 03:59:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 27270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27270: display-raw-bytes-as-hex generates ambiguous output for Emacs strings
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:07:25 -0400

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 06/06/2017 10:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> What do you mean by "Emacs strings"?
>
> I meant that if I prefer hex to octal for buffer escapes, then when I
> type this into *scratch*:
>
>   (format "J%cK" ?\u0080) C-j
>
> I almost surely would prefer to see the result displayed as
> hexadecimal than as "J\200K" (the current behavior).

display-raw-bytes-as-hex does affect the result display for me (of
course, since the result goes into the buffer), doesn't it for you?
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