evaluation output too short

evaluation output too short

[formido]

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.

Michael

Re: evaluation output too short

[Barry Margolin]

In article 
<1054b35f-81a4-41fd-ba84-8e688d9e203f@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
 formido <formido@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 the *scratch* buffer.

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RE: evaluation output too short

[Drew Adams]

> 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

Re: evaluation output too short

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

formido <formido@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

(customize-variables
 '(eval-expression-print-length nil)
 '(eval-expression-print-level nil))

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