Subject: Re: bug#67320: set-fill-column nonsense in minibuffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:53:44 +0200

tags 67320 notabug
thanks

> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:06:40 +0800
> From: Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
> 
> $ emacs -Q #29.1
> in the *scratch* buffer, do
> (set-fill-column 98)^U^X^E
> You will see in the minibuffer this nonsense:
> 99 (#o143, #x63, ?c)
> But the nonsense only happens the first time you do it.

It's not "nonsense", it's the usual feature of eval-expression,
whereby it shows integer evaluation results in several formats.  See
the doc string of "C-x C-e" for how to control this display.

This is not a bug.