bug#19023: 24.4; Long pause when evaluating numeric expression

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> But normally when I evaluate a numeric expression, I do not want to
>> see a character—I’m just using M-: as a calculator
>
> But Emacs doesn't (and cannot) know what you want.

I've always thought it rather strange that Emacs tries to display the
character corresponding to the integer value when you M-: stuff.  How
useful is that, really?

In my experience, I've never wanted to know the octal value or the
corresponding Unicode codepoint of the integer.  I have found the hex
value useful, I think, once.

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