Re: addition produces strange results when run with eval-last-sexp

[Juri Linkov]

Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:
>> (+ 22 44) 
> 66 = ?\S-b
>
>> (+ 99 2)
> 101 = ?e
>
> et cetera  -- pretty weird, don't you think?!

It's not only weird, but often too injurious: to display characters
for large numbers it starts to load completely unnecessary fonts.

OTOH, when sometimes I need to see the result of evaluation as a character,
I expect to see it as the output of the function `what-cursor-position'
or `describe-char' with the full detailed information about character.

So it would be better to remove the character printing from the
`eval-last-sexp', and make a new function (without keybinding because
printing the result as a character is very rare operation), which will
print the full information about result as a character, or to add
a new defcustom which will select the desired behavior in the same
function `eval-last-sexp'.

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