From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pp-to-string heisenberg bug Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:13:28 +0200 Message-ID: <871w5qrqsn.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <20080331155630.4dadae11@reforged> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207135545 13525 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2008 11:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:25:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs developers To: Mike Mattie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 02 13:26:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jh16a-0002Ua-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:26:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh15x-0000R4-LD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:25:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh15L-0000F6-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:24:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh15I-0000E2-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:24:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh15I-0000Dh-38 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [151.61.141.113] (helo=ambire.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jh15H-0004zP-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JgagS-0001uS-9d; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:13:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080331155630.4dadae11@reforged> (Mike Mattie's message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:56:30 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94184 Archived-At: () Mike Mattie () Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:56:30 -0700 pp-to-string is suppost to pretty print nested lists, however when I start Emacs I always get this output truncated with ... Substitution w/ "..." is called "abbreviation", not "truncation", and is controlled by `print-level' and `print-length', not just for `pp-to-string', but for the primitive output funcs it uses, e.g., `prin1'. Other print-foo vars control other aspects. thi