From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: yzhh <yezonghui@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pp-to-string, defun and "()"
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:40:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jezlxu70py.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fgk301$knm$1@ger.gmane.org> (yzhh's message of "Sun\, 04 Nov 2007 17\:22\:09 +0800")
yzhh <yezonghui@gmail.com> writes:
> The following code is intended for produce the string of a defun,
> (pp-to-string
> `(defun recorded-commands ()
> "Commands recorded during the last 'recording commands' cycle."
> (interactive)
> ,@(reclisp-post-process reclisp-recorded-commands)))
>
> It produces
> (defun recorded-commands nil "Commands recorded during the last 'recording
> commands' cycle."
> (interactive)
> ...
>
> The "()" is translated to "nil" which does not look good, and the doc string
> is put in the same line place. Any suggesting?
The pretty printer is very simple. It treats this list like every other
list and does not try to infer any meaning on it.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-04 9:22 pp-to-string, defun and "()" yzhh
2007-11-04 10:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-11-04 10:40 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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