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: evaluation output too short Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:59:28 -0700 Message-ID: <002601c8e4f0$aacf5ea0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <1054b35f-81a4-41fd-ba84-8e688d9e203f@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215957697 15262 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2008 14:01:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:01:37 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 13 16:02:24 2008 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 1KI29e-0003GG-OV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:02:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KI28m-00071J-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:01:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KI28U-00071A-2E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KI28T-00070q-3d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58240 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KI28S-00070n-O7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:60710) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KI28R-0007Uo-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m6DE0Baw003621 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m6DBafdi003102 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:00:11 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3708019501215957568; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:59:28 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/67.174.192.82) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:59:27 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acjkq1QBvXrVbf1WS0+rFZsrrxmHWQARKtVg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:55505 Archived-At: > When I evaluate load-path (and presumbly other variables whose > stringified form is "too" long), most of the result is truncated in > the mini-buffer (and messages buffer). How can I send output to a > scrollable buffer that shows the entire contents of the evaluation? I > found describe-variable, but I don't want to have to bother with that > every time I evaluate something. Use `M-x pp-eval-expression'. Personally, I bind it to `M-:' in place of `eval-expression'. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EvaluatingExpressions#PpPlus