From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hash-table-{to, from}-alist Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:24:34 +0900 Message-ID: <877i6qqam5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <863aknitfg.fsf@lifelogs.com> <20080830051807.GB9625@tomas> <86bpwe9su5.fsf@lifelogs.com> <867i6z1jo5.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <86ej14vhvg.fsf@lifelogs.com> <20081122054510.GA28298@tomas> <873ahkkkt5.fsf@xemacs.org> <20081122152126.GA4142@tomas> <87vdufk6do.fsf@xemacs.org> <867i6tt4yz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bpw4k1z6.fsf@xemacs.org> <86bpw3d829.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k5ari5jh.fsf@xemacs.org> <86prkiiia2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86ej0ygr5j.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227745299 15789 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2008 00:21:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 27 01:22:41 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 1L5UeU-0003kU-8C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:22:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39748 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L5UdK-0002wo-Fg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L5UdF-0002wa-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L5UdE-0002wB-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56784 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L5UdD-0002w6-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:21:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:40680) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5UdD-0004LY-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:21:19 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678988211; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:21:15 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1B0B21A2D03; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:24:35 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <86ej0ygr5j.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:106215 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:10:38 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> IMHO hashtables should always be printed completely and should be > >> treated like lists and vectors. XEmacs abbreviates all "large" atomic objects in Lisp backtraces, AFAIK. This includes anything with a plist. But you can have your preference by setting `print-readably' globally. > >> If, however, compatibility with XEmacs is desired or people feel > >> strongly for print-readably, I will implement with > >> print-readably. > > SM> char tables are always printed in full and we haven't had any complaints > SM> about that, so you're probably right: let's just always print them > SM> in full. If it turns out to be problematic in some cases, we can later > SM> on add some extra variable to control the level of detail. > > Great. Maybe XEmacs should add print-unreadably ;) We already have that. (^^;