From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Inspecting functions returning complicated values Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:46:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <109c53cd-7e86-4153-b2cc-21261bd9dadc@default> References: <87lhp0hd9m.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412124407 14524 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2014 00:46:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:46:47 +0000 (UTC) To: Marcin Borkowski , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 01 02:46:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ83x-0002Wt-SC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 02:46:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47292 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ83x-0007tt-HZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ83d-0007mL-Fu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:46:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ83U-00018Q-9S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:30707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ83U-000188-4B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s910k5oa015058 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:46:06 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s910k3T1021004 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:46:05 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0008.oracle.com (abhmp0008.oracle.com [141.146.116.14]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s910k2fF003924; Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:46:03 GMT In-Reply-To: <87lhp0hd9m.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100193 Archived-At: > 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: >=20 > M-: (setq blah-blah (function-returning-hairy-stuff)) > C-h C-v blah-blah >=20 > This seems a bit awkward, however. Is there a better/cleaner way? M-x pp-eval-expression