Re: decimal / hex conversions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Pflästerer) writes:

> On 27 Nov 2003, Thomas Heller <- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Looks very useful, and nearly works if I insert (require 'font)
>> above.  But thing-word needs an argument, and I'm not able to figure out
>> which one.
>
> If you change Stephen's code a bit it will work:
>
> (defun h2datpt ()
>   "C syntax like `0xDEADBEEF' works magically."
>   (interactive)
>   (ffap-string-at-point)
>   (delete-region (car ffap-string-at-point-region)
>                (cadr ffap-string-at-point-region))
>   (insert (number-to-string 
>          (font-hex-string-to-number ffap-string-at-point))))
>

This comes pretty close - the only problem seems to be that xemacs'
integers are limited to less than 32 bits ;-(.

Thanks,

Thomas