From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: list-print-separator Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:45:38 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <878vuyj6gd.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8762qr8x23.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vcy7mbxq.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hb9nglen.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877haiebj9.fsf@lifelogs.com> <82vcy2rqhk.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303771561 15824 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2011 22:46:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:46:01 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 26 00:45:58 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 1QEUXV-0000f5-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:45:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEUXU-00067j-VP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEUXT-00067e-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEUXS-0001bP-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEUXR-0001bK-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:45:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QEUXR-0000dg-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:45:53 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:45:53 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:45:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A7GtalXtR7/TNQRER6WKKweXZgY= 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:138771 Archived-At: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:05:43 +0100 Andy Moreton wrote: AM> 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. AM> I use somthing like this for a prettier newsrc.eld: AM> (add-hook 'gnus-save-quick-newsrc-hook AM> (lambda () AM> (save-excursion AM> (goto-char (point-min)) AM> (save-match-data AM> (while (re-search-forward "(\\\"\\| ((\\| (nn" nil t) AM> (replace-match "\n \\&" t))) AM> (delete-trailing-whitespace)))) AM> It may not be perfect, but it does make it a great deal more readable. Me too, but that doesn't work for new users, it relies on regular expressions, and it's slow. My suggestion for the above was basically to make `list-print-separator' "\n \\" but I will instead work on `pp' as Stefan has requested. Ted