bug#31614: Off Topic

[Noam Postavsky]

Van L <van@scratch.space> writes:

> I don’t want to create another bug report for why

There's not really a reason not to, we won't run out of bug numbers.

>   (+ 2 2) 
>
> gives the ``complication’’ by default
>
>   4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)
>
> and not the simple
>
>   4
>
> Emacs 26.1-rc1 (NS Port) and Emacs 25.3 (Mac Port) both produce
>
>   4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)
>
> In the below, it is not possible to set 
> `eval-expression-print-maximum-character’ to `nil’ to 
> achieve the simple `4’ result.

Oh, I think I intended eval-expression-print-maximum-character to only
affect the ?\C-d part, e.g., if you set it to 0, you get

    4 (#o4, #x4)

But I see there is no way to get a plain '4' except by (setq
eval-expression-print-maximum-character nil), which is kind of an
accident.