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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 66267@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#66267: Document cl-print.el in the CL manual.
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:02:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <835y3dv026.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZSW3JaoDtm_0r83x@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:42:13 +0000)

> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:42:13 +0000
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 66267@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > > > > +should respect @code{print-length}, @code{print-level}, and
> > > > > +@code{cl-print-string-length}.  @var{limit} may be @code{nil} or zero
> > > > > +in which case @var{print-function} will be called with these settings
> > > > > +bound to @code{nil}, and it can also be @code{t} in which case
> > > > > +@var{print-function} will be called with their current values.
> > > > > +
> > > > > +Use this function with @code{cl-prin1} to print an object,
> > > > > +abbreviating it with ellipses to fit within a size limit.
> > > >                         ^^^^^^^^
> > > > "ellipsis"
> 
> > > No.  "EllipsEs" is the plural of "ellipsIs".
> 
> > ??? You say "abbreviating it with ellipses".  "It" is singular, so it
> > gets abbreviated with only one ellipsis, not with several ones.
> 
> Not necessarily.  Something like a cons structure or vector printed by
> cl-prin1 can have several, or even many ellipses in it.  Last week I got
> a line from an ERT backtrace containing 42 ellipses - which incidentally
> made it nearly useless for debugging.

Then something like this is in order, I think:

  Use this function with @code{cl-prin1} to print an object, possibly
  abbreviating it with one or more ellipses to fit within the size
  limit.

> By the way, I forgot one detail about the patch.  I've written it on the
> assumption that bug #66392 "Add raw printing for byte compiled functions
> to cl-prin1, etc." gets OK'd.  Stefan M. has already explicitly expressed
> no objection to it.  If that bug isn't OK, it's a simple matter to amend
> the cl.texi patch.  Would you take a quick peep at it, please?  Thanks!

I have no objections to it.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-11 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-29 16:40 bug#66267: Document cl-print.el in the CL manual Alan Mackenzie
2023-09-29 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-09 17:41   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-10 11:26     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-10 16:49       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-10 18:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-10 20:42           ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-11 12:02             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-10-11 15:15               ` Alan Mackenzie

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