Printing a hash table

Printing a hash table

[Joost Kremers]

EN:SiS(9)
Hi,

When I have a larg(ish) hash table, displaying this table (e.g., in an
ielm buffer by entering the name that points to it), can take some time.
Usually, when I do this, I'm not really interested in the values stored
in the table, just in the fact whether the variable whose value I'm
checking is actually pointing to a hash table.

Is there a way to tell Emacs to not print the data of a hash table?

TIA


Joost

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Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
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RE: Printing a hash table

[Drew Adams]

> I'm not really interested in the values stored in the table, just
> in the fact whether the variable whose value I'm checking is
> actually pointing to a hash table.

Use predicate `hash-table-p'.

M-: (hash-table-p foo-variable) RET

Re: Printing a hash table

[Joost Kremers]

Drew Adams wrote:
>> I'm not really interested in the values stored in the table, just
>> in the fact whether the variable whose value I'm checking is
>> actually pointing to a hash table.
>
> Use predicate `hash-table-p'.
>
> M-: (hash-table-p foo-variable) RET

Mmm, I hadn't thought of that... :-) 


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Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
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