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bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:00:31 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
> What things would that be? The only ones I can think of are raw bytes
> and some control characters.
Yes, that's what I was thinking of.
> The only reason why C-x = shows octal is inertia. If you wrote the
> command today, you would not include octal.
>
> This is just another Immovable Ladder in Emacs. It must be preserved
> exactly as it is, for the sole reason that it has always been this
> way.
I never use octal myself and have configured Emacs to display raw bytes
as hex, so I agree with the first assertion. But the latter isn't a
very friendly caricature. The reason we don't remove all the octal
stuff from Emacs is that it'd annoy a significant number of people.
>> `C-x 8 e d' says what the name of the character is. Perhaps it should
>> also include the hex value...
>
> Or perhaps we could improve the more commonly used and accessible `C-x
> =` to show both?
>
> I could write a patch to change it (with an option to keep the Good
> Old Times look for the traditionalist), but there's no point if it
> would be dismissed out of hand. Would it?
Making a format-spec thing for `C-x =' would be fine by me.
I don't understand the aggression here, though.
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- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/23
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Mattias Engdegård, 2022/01/23
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/24
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Mattias Engdegård, 2022/01/24
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Robert Pluim, 2022/01/24
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Mattias Engdegård, 2022/01/24
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Mattias Engdegård, 2022/01/24
- bug#24902: [External] : bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Drew Adams, 2022/01/24
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/24
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Mattias Engdegård, 2022/01/24
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/01/24
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Mattias Engdegård, 2022/01/25
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Robert Pluim, 2022/01/25
- bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/01/25