From: ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Shouldn't emacs print long lists with newlines?
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 14:43:03 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AxwXtg.lQvOJJhDMSSE.YSJLQYKaDlo5IKvB8KnY@freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muglxxns.fsf@web.de>
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> 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.
Long lists as output is pretty hard to read when the list is on a
single line and it is displayed on multiple screen lines.
So those parts of emacs which print lists for human consumption
(debug, printing expressions resulting in long lists, etc.) should
benefit from some heuristics to display the list as one item per line
when it's better.
E.g. if the disaplayed list is longer than a screen line then it could
display an item per line. Maybe depending on a user option.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-07 12:43 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
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 [this message]
2019-08-07 14:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
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