[debbugs-tracker] bug#31579: closed (emacs-lisp-intro.texi - line 1267 - echo area shows `4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)' and not just `4'.)

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shows `4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)' and not just `4'.
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #31579,
regarding emacs-lisp-intro.texi - line 1267 - echo area shows `4 (#o4, #x4, 
?\C-d)' and not just `4'.
to be marked as done.

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> emacs-lisp-intro.texi - line 1267 - echo area shows `4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)' and not just `4'.
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> Thu, 24 May 2018 20:38:12 +1000
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> Hello.
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> It could say, ``You will see the number @code{4} (and other details in a list) 
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>   #+NAME: emacs-lisp-intro.texi
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>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1257) If you are reading 
> this inside of GNU Emacs in Info, here is how you can
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1258) evaluate such a list:  
> place your cursor immediately after the right
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1259) hand parenthesis of 
> the following list and then type @kbd{C-x C-e}:
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1260) 
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1261) @smallexample
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1262) (+ 2 2)
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1263) @end smallexample
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1264) 
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1265) @c use code for the 
> number four, not samp.
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1266) @noindent
>   ef7dbdf5 (Paul Eggert              2015-09-15  1267) You will see the number 
> @code{4} appear in the echo area.  (What
>     ef7dbdf5 (Paul Eggert              2015-09-15  1268) you have just done is 
> evaluate the list.  The echo area
>     ef7dbdf5 (Paul Eggert              2015-09-15  1269) is the line at the 
> bottom of the screen that displays or echoes
>     8cda6f8f (Glenn Morris             2007-09-06  1270) text.)  Now try the 
> same thing with a quoted list:  place the cursor
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>     ;; `C-x C-e' produces in the echo area `4 (#o4, #x4, ?\C-d)'
>     ;; `C-u C-x C-e' produces `4'
>     (+ 2 2)
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>   #+END_EXAMPLE
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> > It could say, ``You will see the number @code{4} (and other details in a 
> > list) appear in the echo area.''
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> I preferred to describe the other details in a footnote, so that the
> text sounds less vague, and thus runs a lower risk of confusing
> people.
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> (The original text evidently wasn't updated when the display of
> integer evaluation was changed sometimes during the Emacs 20.x
> series.)
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