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Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article <ce1sfo$3ol$1@mughi.cs.ubc.ca>,
>  Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I have been making sure to quote the list, but it doesn't seem to 
> > work at all. I've also tried to macroexpand the forms I'm evaluating but 
> > the minibuffer just shows a condensed version of the expansion with lots 
> > of '...' placeholders. Is there a simple way to macroexpand and pretty 
> > print a form without the '...'s ?
> 
> Use the *scratch* buffer for a better interface to the Emacs Lisp R-E-P 
> loop.

Or any elisp buffer, with: C-u C-x C-e:

(macroexpand '(push 'a a)) C-u C-x C-e --> (setq a (cons (quote a) a))

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