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From: Tianxiang Xiong <tianxiang.xiong@gmail.com>
To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	 clement.pit@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Proposal: font lock for `describe-variable`
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:09:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1474949378.32234.5.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvmvivznuc.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org

Would anyone care to take a look at the revised version of the
proposal? It's in another e-mail on this thread.

There are still a few kinks, such as:

- How to properly handle large values. Right now we have a policy of
not pretty-printing if the print representation is above some arbitrary
value; should we make use of `print-length` and `print-level` to ensure
that the print representation is always "reasonable"? Or is `describe-
variable` expected to always show the whole value?

- Handling sequences that cannot be operated on with standard sequence
functions like "length", e.g. rings. This one was a surprise, but
should not be too hard to fix.

- Syntax tables. For some reason, syntax table print in front of the
"Its value is:" prompt; I've yet to figure out why.

Thanks,

TX



             reply	other threads:[~2016-09-27  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-27  4:09 Tianxiang Xiong [this message]
2016-09-27 15:49 ` Proposal: font lock for `describe-variable` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-27 16:30   ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-09-27 17:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-28  3:45       ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-09-28  4:21         ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-30  7:34           ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-09-30 13:20             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-30 14:41               ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-03 13:57             ` Tino Calancha
2016-10-08 21:51               ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-10-09 15:48                 ` Tino Calancha
2016-10-11  4:11                   ` Tianxiang Xiong
2016-10-11  5:40                     ` Tino Calancha
2016-10-11  5:51                       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-11  5:59                         ` Tino Calancha
2016-10-11 13:31                           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-11 13:57                             ` Tino Calancha
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-25 18:25 Tianxiang Xiong
2016-09-25  3:36 Tianxiang Xiong
2016-09-25 14:47 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-25 19:02   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-25 19:46     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-25 21:12       ` Stefan Monnier

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