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From: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Treat :tangle-mode as an octal value not integer
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:10:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285462.1632899438@apollo2.minshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:39:25 +0200." <20210929063925.GA6367@tuxteam.de>

Tomas,

> Why not recommend Elisp's explicit syntax for octal representation,
> i.e. :tangle-mode #o660? And put a prominent note in the docs,
> of course.

as much as my fingers are used to "0660 ==> octal", this probably makes
sense.

on the other hand, to protect users, might it be worthwhile ("just due
to the context") to flag ":tangle-mode 0..." integers as an error for
the user to deal with?  (and point them at, e.g., #o660.)

cheers, Greg


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-29  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-28 14:54 [PATCH] Treat :tangle-mode as an octal value not integer Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-29  6:39 ` tomas
2021-09-29  6:55   ` Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-29  7:21     ` tomas
2021-09-29  7:52     ` dkrm
2021-09-29  8:22       ` tomas
2021-09-29  9:29         ` Gyro Funch
2021-09-29 11:07           ` tomas
2021-09-29 13:17             ` Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-29 13:55               ` tomas
2021-09-29  7:10   ` Greg Minshall [this message]
2021-09-29 11:35 ` Bastien
2021-09-29 13:48 ` Timothy
2021-09-29 14:26   ` tomas
2021-09-29 14:58     ` Timothy
2021-09-29 15:13       ` Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-30 18:13         ` Timothy
2021-09-29 15:14       ` tomas
2021-09-29 17:18     ` Greg Minshall
2021-09-29 18:15       ` tomas
2021-11-18 12:04       ` Timothy

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