From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: print-circle and describe-variable
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:16:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xczjxt2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HbUDe-0004vN-1g@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Matthew Stallman's message of "Wed\, 11 Apr 2007 00\:14\:06 -0400")
Richard Matthew Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I think only Lisp hackers will encounter/care about such complicated
> structures, and they are surely able to customize print-length and
> print-level if necessary.
>
> Lots of users will see these variables in values shown by
> describe-variable. And even if they know how to customize,
> it is pure inconvenience to require them to do so.
>
> It would be useful for the help buffer to let RET expand the partly
> hidden value, just as evaluation in the buffer does. And the code
> is already written.
My point is whether this is even necessary for realistic Emacs usage.
In practice, are there any significant Emacs variables containing
circular structures, that users will want to look up using
describe-variable? I can't think of any off the top of my head.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-07 0:54 print-circle and describe-variable Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-07 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-09 0:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-09 1:00 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-09 9:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-09 19:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 23:08 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-09 23:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-09 23:43 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-10 0:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-10 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-10 15:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-10 15:50 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-10 16:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-10 16:13 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-10 1:00 ` Miles Bader
2007-04-10 2:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-10 2:35 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-11 4:14 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-11 5:16 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2007-04-11 23:04 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-12 9:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-13 1:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-11 16:33 ` Herbert Euler
2007-04-09 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
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