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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Inspecting functions returning complicated values
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:46:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <109c53cd-7e86-4153-b2cc-21261bd9dadc@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhp0hd9m.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl>

> assume that I want to inspect a function whose return value is a
> long, deeply nested list.  I found this way to present it in a
> readable way:
> 
> M-: (setq blah-blah (function-returning-hairy-stuff))
> C-h C-v blah-blah
> 
> This seems a bit awkward, however.  Is there a better/cleaner way?

M-x pp-eval-expression



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30 23:58 Inspecting functions returning complicated values Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-01  0:46 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-10-01  1:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found] ` <mailman.10126.1412124387.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-02  0:35   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-10-02  3:06     ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.10124.1412121528.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-01  0:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-10-01 14:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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