From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 14754@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14754: 24.3.50; `C-h v' needs to fill wide `pp' lines (493 chars wide?!)
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 19:56:49 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4be36dd8-7c8c-4e9a-a7b6-b036f624de8a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738juyupv.fsf@building.gnus.org>
> Is there any reason why it doesn't just pretty-print the values
> always?
It's not so simple. See my followup message, after the original
report. The bug is really about filling long lines.
Pretty-printing does not help with that.
E.g., do this:
Load file bytecomp.el, then C-h v byte-compile-cl-functions.
The value is a flat list of 456 symbols. Pretty-printing
inserts no newline chars when printing it.
And as my followup message points out, filling something
that has been pretty-printed destroys pretty-printing.
Perhaps what might be useful (dunno) is a new pretty-printer
variable, to go along with `(eval-expression-)print-length'
and `print-circle', and which would insert a newline between
atoms when the line length is sufficiently long. Dunno.
I don't have a solution for this enhancement request. Maybe
someone else does.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-30 7:10 bug#14754: 24.3.50; `C-h v' needs to fill wide `pp' lines (493 chars wide?!) Drew Adams
2013-07-01 17:07 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-08 6:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10 3:56 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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