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: how to capture output too long to fit Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:51:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: <877invg5sx.fsf@pu100877.student.princeton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187276051 10814 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2007 14:54:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:54:11 +0000 (UTC) To: "Tamas Papp" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 16 16:54:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ILgjd-0001Lb-T7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:54:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILgjd-0006Js-HZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILgiU-00060f-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILgiR-0005wQ-2r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:52:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILgiQ-0005w4-OX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:52:50 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ILgiQ-0007Rv-08 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:52:50 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l7GEqWAj013953; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:52:32 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l7F0PBfq025530; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:52:31 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-179.us.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3133721341187275923; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:52:03 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <877invg5sx.fsf@pu100877.student.princeton.edu> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46618 Archived-At: > >> When I do M-: (frame-parameters) RET, the value appears in the > >> minibuffer, but it is too long to fit there and ends with ... How > >> could I see the whole thing? > > > > Try M-: (pp (frame-parameters)) > > Thanks Martin, > > This is the only one that works, all the other approaches have ... at > the end. > > Another question: the output in the minibuffer disappears when I click > on it and try to scroll. How can I prevent that? Is it possible to > evaluate into a new, permanent buffer? If you use Icicles, plain `M-: (frame-parameters)' does what you want. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles