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Re: How switch from escaped octal character code to escaped HEX?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: How switch from escaped octal character code to escaped HEX? |
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Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:42:33 -0500 |
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In article <mailman.8.1294038895.27854.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the reasoning behind displaying it in octal rather than
> decimal or hexadecimal in the first place? I didn't know people cared
> about octals anymore.
I think it's historical. The original MIT developers tended to use
octal more than hex.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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