From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ndame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#53507: [External] : bug#53507: 27.1; syntax highlight in the eval-expression prompt Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:28:31 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87fspcx9hz.fsf@gnus.org> <87k0enqrpn.fsf@web.de> <_4HT5Zir6jtMz0tMVkAv21AKQoFlXcqM-W6PQki147C7hd47OGx6D-bN_3pM5ckEJ8kSeu0oZ3amuodEoL7dPrn4DTJ3f9YFuoaAIWsRyJ0=@protonmail.com> Reply-To: ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38621"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Michael Heerdegen , "53507@debbugs.gnu.org" <53507@debbugs.gnu.org>, "larsi@gnus.org" , "46092@debbugs.gnu.org" <46092@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 27 10:29:47 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nD16B-0009pO-39 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:29:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40654 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD169-0000E4-L0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:29:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD15S-0000Do-OL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:29:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD15S-0007RU-9r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:29:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nD15S-0000JL-5U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:29:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: ndame Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:29:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 53507 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 53507-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B53507.16432757221161 (code B ref 53507); Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:29:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 53507) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Jan 2022 09:28:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54342 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nD157-0000IZ-NB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-4325.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.25]:32687) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nD154-0000IG-Gz; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:28:39 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail2; t=1643275712; bh=9qAftiZRMlXdhGb4xb8Pt4Xf0hu9Pgs390F3RxDBxWg=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To: References:From:To:Cc; b=N8PNw+/mgOfQM3cSu3ShSPcT4fP17zCJWKo4dGQiHJ1Soi2QKol5nD5z0JNOChP/H zGUXd1FrlutHb/uGhyOSJrAok1bG88v24f4MChe4tc40Oq3YSMhbgKEI9uhJHSs41e kLUB/CUi1Krpqd/iaSduO/BrPjCotJCza60nGPXOa55KbNakoIP22WGkoX9YoSu8ax vXPUaot+2Kg7jc9dTNFVVKxJQ+z8yg6O8/dSzrvu1BS/DkZcnC57GPAVEfQbrCKNHM hWDERAA3x+BdAQf2J8o2kM6qfYRIOkrAAfdSELJKRIeiEtopN3G6wE8lFKYUjsfEA0 T67KZ5whX0v0A== In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" X-ACL-Warn: , ndame Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:225332 Archived-At: > Personally, even when I use `M-:' mainly for a side effect, I'm often > = interested in the resulting value as well. The` M-:' dialog could be > improved in both ways. I agree that when eval-expression outputs a non-trivial expression then the output should be formatted properly and maybe it should be popped to a buffer, because the echo area is not suitable for examining a complex expression when it disappears with the next command. Why don't you open a separate bug about this?