From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inspecting functions returning complicated values Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 02:35:48 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <871tqrmhp7.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87lhp0hd9m.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412210427 8393 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2014 00:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 00:40:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 02:40:20 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 1XZURQ-0007pB-LP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 02:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59496 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZURQ-0002Mr-BF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 20:40:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.snarked.org!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tVmDpoMHMwv4gohs+B1D3A.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bql7yEh5wl/EerCsS6+WkNZyZeI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207945 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:100220 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > M-x pp-eval-expression What improvement is that? (message "hello") (eval-expression (message "hello")) (pp-eval-expression (message "hello")) Here, the first two seem to do the same, namely put it in the echo area for inspection and then you can use `C-h e'. pp-eval-expression also puts it in *Messages* but doesn't echo it what I can see. But I agree with the other posters, IELM, with (ielm) is the best way to do this. -- underground experts united