From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inspecting functions returning complicated values Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:59:41 +0800 Message-ID: <87sij8tur6.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87lhp0hd9m.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412128830 28791 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2014 02:00:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 02:00:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 01 04:00:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ9DK-0000JZ-D4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47413 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ9DK-0001d0-4d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ9D3-0001Yc-BG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ9Cx-000684-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ9Cx-00067x-0l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:59:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XZ9Cv-0000B4-Vv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 03:59:57 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.248.29.143 ([114.248.29.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 03:59:57 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.248.29.143 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 03:59:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.248.29.143 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MGyfNlGPkAsCVhnYqlwIntHhbjI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100194 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski 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.