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From: John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Difficulty of finding "print" (as in read-eval-print loop) in the Elisp manual
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:41:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7wfprs8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180211132138.GA5694@ACM>


You should be able to find more details about `print' in the Elisp
manual ("m Elisp") as opposed to the Emacs manual, which I guess is what
you are using.

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hello, Emacs.
>
> I want to look up details of printing (i.e. the transformation of
> internal lisp objects to human readable strings) in the elisp manual.
>
> I try "i print" in ths manual.  I get back only entries about making
> imprints on paper.  "printing" is no better.
>
> I think there's something wrong about this.
>
> Should I raise a bug report?



      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-11 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-11 13:21 Difficulty of finding "print" (as in read-eval-print loop) in the Elisp manual Alan Mackenzie
2018-02-11 13:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-02-11 13:41 ` John Shahid [this message]

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