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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On cl-print and help-fns
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 02:11:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh8yy9fdx.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170630021020.GA27460@holos.localdomain

> While cl-print is a nice feature, I am puzzled why its use in the help
> buffer is neither documented nor configurable.

> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=2c18969c8

> I think that "Its value is #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode>)", while
> less messy, is less useful than just seeing the bytecode, as the bytecode
> would at least give me a clue.  The cl-prin1-to-string output is opaque.

Maybe we should default cl-print-compiled to `static`, so as to hide the
byte-code, but still show the constants used in the code?


        Stefan


PS: Oh, and IIUC in the latest version of the code, you might be
able to click on the #<bytecode> to see a disassembly of the code.




  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-30  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-30  2:10 On cl-print and help-fns Mark Oteiza
2017-06-30  6:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-07-01  3:29   ` Noam Postavsky

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