From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:48:28 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87r6mvh7oj.fsf@jurta.org> References: <871wew40k2.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185441145 10084 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2007 09:12:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 26 11:12:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IDzOP-0006Rs-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:12:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDzOO-0001qY-Pw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDzN5-00016c-Bl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDzN3-00015H-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:10:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDzN2-00015A-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IDzMz-0003nl-7u; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IDzMt-000Epx-3y; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:10:49 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed\, 25 Jul 2007 20\:49\:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 485d3c07c5d69b41d1cad5b5ab8b481e X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1284 [July 25 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75557 Archived-At: > I'm afraid that it's still too early: the user still has to decide where the > result goes before seeing that result. A better option might be to provide > a new command that can be executed right after M-: which would show the last > result in a separate buffer, pretty printed, highlighted, and all. I think a new display command to execute after M-: can be useful only when the user doesn't know beforehand what the output will look like. But in most cases before executing M-: or M-!, I know what the output I expect and what I want to do with the output (search/edit/copy-paste...) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/