From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 10723@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10723: 24.0.93; bad pp formatting for `C-h v' with list value
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:16:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878utkc1c1.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4BAC82D7B848B5B3EA377B062FF8F2@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 4 Feb 2012 09:39:39 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> This is a REGRESSION which starts with Emacs 23 (no problem before 23).
>
> emacs -Q
>
> (setq foobar '(some-symbol ((some . cons) "some-string")))
>
> C-h v foobar
>
> Shows:
>
> foobar's value is (some-symbol
> ((some . cons)
> "some-string"))
>
> Please do not start the pretty-printed value on the same line as
> "foobar's value is" if the pretty-printed value EITHER:
>
> a. uses more than one line (i.e. contains newline chars)
>
> OR
>
> b. is longer than the standard *Help* output line length (`fill-column')
> MINUS the length of "foobar's value is " (where "foobar" is replaced by
> the variable's name)
I can confirm that this still exists in Emacs 24.3.
--
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-04 17:39 bug#10723: 24.0.93; bad pp formatting for `C-h v' with list value Drew Adams
2012-09-17 0:17 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-09 5:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-28 13:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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