Re: Inspecting functions returning complicated values

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> assume that I want to inspect a function whose return value is a long,
> deeply nested list.  I found this way to present it in a readable way:
>
> M-: (setq blah-blah (function-returning-hairy-stuff))
> C-h C-v blah-blah
>
> This seems a bit awkward, however.  Is there a better/cleaner way?

In most any (writable) buffer, you can type:

   (prog1 (terpri) (pp (function-returning-hairy-stuff))) C-u C-x C-e

This won't work only in buffer where C-x C-e is not bound to
eval-last-sexp. In those buffers you can type C-u M-x eval-last-sexp RET
instead of C-u C-x C-e

You can also use ielm: 

M-x ielm RET
(pp (function-returning-hairy-stuff)) RET
(pp (other-function-returning-hairy-stuff)) RET
;; etc…


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