From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inspecting functions returning complicated values
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:59:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sij8tur6.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lhp0hd9m.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl
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?
>
> TIA,
It can also be interesting to start an IELM repl and do things to the
return value there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-01 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-30 23:58 Inspecting functions returning complicated values Marcin Borkowski
2014-10-01 0:46 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-01 1:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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2014-10-02 0:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-10-02 3:06 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <mailman.10124.1412121528.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-01 0:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-10-01 14:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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