From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: list-print-separator Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:05:43 +0100 Message-ID: <82vcy2rqhk.fsf@gmail.com> References: <8762qr8x23.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vcy7mbxq.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hb9nglen.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877haiebj9.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303765568 16624 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2011 21:06:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:06:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 23:06:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QESyq-0000XC-Le for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:06:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55660 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QESyq-0000Wa-2K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QESyo-0000WS-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QESyn-0004QX-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QESyn-0004QT-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:06:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QESyl-0000TZ-Ig for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:05:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.64.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:05:59 +0200 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:05:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hU/JDyaxgVykdqrd7RyDjpeQn5I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138767 Archived-At: On Mon 25 Apr 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote: > SM> Hmm... I wouldn't try to compare the speed of `print' with that of `pp' > SM> since they do very different amounts of work and are implemented in > SM> languages whose performance is very different, but there's clearly room > SM> for improvement in pp's speed. >> I want to print out a large ELisp data structure prettily. The Gnus >> newsrc.eld, for example, or the Gnus registry hashtable. I'll use >> whatever makes it happen as fast as possible. > > The newsrc.eld has never been pretty and it's never been a problem, AFAIK. > Not sure what's the "Gnus registry", so I can't comment on that. I use somthing like this for a prettier newsrc.eld: (add-hook 'gnus-save-quick-newsrc-hook (lambda () (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (save-match-data (while (re-search-forward "(\\\"\\| ((\\| (nn" nil t) (replace-match "\n \\&" t))) (delete-trailing-whitespace)))) It may not be perfect, but it does make it a great deal more readable. AndyM