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: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 02:36:42 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <878ul0fwx1.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412124029 10717 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2014 00:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 01 02:40:22 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 1XZ7xt-0000Vs-Pb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 02:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ7xt-0006Mp-EZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:40:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 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: sha1:6zV87XFqrlR6iEdDwOMZfqxN6fs= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207917 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:100192 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > 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? Ha! Interesting question. I guess I would simply write the above in an Elisp file (with an .el extension) and then evaluate it. (Or even insert it into the buffer.) Otherwise you can just do it as you do (the eval-expression or M-: part) and then `C-h e' or view-echo-area-messages to examine the result in the *Messages* buffer. -- underground experts united