From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Shouldn't emacs print long lists with newlines?
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:05:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muglxxns.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AxwErg.Rq5L5rgXEU.TGVS9BkBNK0Iqf9h5r0@freemail.hu> (ndame's message of "Mon, 5 Aug 2019 20:05:49 +0000 (GMT)")
ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu> writes:
> Shouldn't the printing code be smarter and print long lists with
> newlines, every item in a separate line, to avoid the long line
> issue?
If it should depends on the use case. It should be able to do so when
the user wants that - especially pretty printing (pp). So far this has
been discussed here and there, but so far nobody has implemented it.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-07 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-05 20:05 Shouldn't emacs print long lists with newlines? ndame
2019-08-07 7:05 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2019-08-07 10:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-07 12:04 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-28 17:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-29 7:46 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-07 12:43 ` ndame
2019-08-07 14:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
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