From: Sebastian Miele <iota@whxvd.name>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 64835@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64835: ‘describe-variable’ unconditionally let-binds ‘print-circle’ to t
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:23:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmyp8bbs.fsf@whxvd.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o7k1qm1g.fsf@gnu.org>
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 2023-07-24 20:03 +0300
>
>> From: Sebastian Miele <iota@whxvd.name>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:42:09 +0200
>>
>> That was not the case in Emacs 28. It seems to have been introduced
>> in the following commit:
>>
>> 2c18969c810f338d73beda592ee5af7103132e97
>> Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> AuthorDate: Thu Mar 2 02:08:08 2017 -0500
>> Commit: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> CommitDate: Thu Mar 2 02:08:32 2017 -0500
>>
>> * lisp/help-fns.el (describe-variable): Use cl-print for the value
>>
>> Use `pp-buffer' rather than `pp' so as to avoid calling prin1 twice.
>>
>> 2017 is a while ago. The first pretest release of Emacs 28 was in
>> December 2021. So the commit must have entered the current emacs-29
>> branch in some "non-linear" way.
>
> I don't think so. I see this code in Emacs 28.1. So I'm not sure why
> you didn't see this behavior in Emacs 28, if indeed it is caused by
> print-circle.
I must have made a mistake when I tested with Emacs 28 yesterday. After
checking again, the behavior clearly is in Emacs 28, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-24 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-24 16:42 bug#64835: ‘describe-variable’ unconditionally let-binds ‘print-circle’ to t Sebastian Miele
2023-07-24 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-24 17:23 ` Sebastian Miele [this message]
2023-08-06 2:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-08 3:00 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-08 3:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-08-08 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-06 10:09 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-08-15 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-15 12:24 ` Mattias Engdegård
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