From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#66267: Document cl-print.el in the CL manual. Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:15:05 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83fs2wyl5p.fsf@gnu.org> <83v8bevhv2.fsf@gnu.org> <83bkd6ux40.fsf@gnu.org> <835y3dv026.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3990"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 66267-done@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 11 17:16:01 2023 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 1qqawL-0000rU-Me for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:16:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qqaw3-0008Fi-0b; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qqaw0-00086D-VL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qqaw0-0005KQ-LX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qqawM-000219-6r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:16:02 -0400 Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:16:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 66267 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Mail-Followup-To: 66267@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de, acm@muc.de Original-Received: via spool by 66267-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D66267.16970373407617 (code D ref 66267); Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:16:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 66267-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Oct 2023 15:15:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39857 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qqaw0-0001yi-0u for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:27850) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qqavv-0001w5-O8 for 66267-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:15:38 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 99209 invoked by uid 3782); 11 Oct 2023 17:15:07 +0200 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pd953a848.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.83.168.72]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:15:06 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 29779 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Oct 2023 15:15:05 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <835y3dv026.fsf@gnu.org> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:272257 Archived-At: Hello, Eli. On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 15:02:57 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:42:13 +0000 > > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 66267@debbugs.gnu.org > > From: Alan Mackenzie [ .... ] > > > ??? You say "abbreviating it with ellipses". "It" is singular, so it > > > gets abbreviated with only one ellipsis, not with several ones. > > Not necessarily. Something like a cons structure or vector printed by > > cl-prin1 can have several, or even many ellipses in it. Last week I got > > a line from an ERT backtrace containing 42 ellipses - which incidentally > > made it nearly useless for debugging. > Then something like this is in order, I think: > Use this function with @code{cl-prin1} to print an object, possibly > abbreviating it with one or more ellipses to fit within the size > limit. I've put that text into cl.texi, thanks. I've tidied up a few trivialities, inserted that cross-reference we talked about, and committed the change to master. I'm closing the bug with this post. > > By the way, I forgot one detail about the patch. I've written it on the > > assumption that bug #66392 "Add raw printing for byte compiled functions > > to cl-prin1, etc." gets OK'd. Stefan M. has already explicitly expressed > > no objection to it. If that bug isn't OK, it's a simple matter to amend > > the cl.texi patch. Would you take a quick peep at it, please? Thanks! > I have no objections to it. Thanks. I've committed that change and closed that bug, too. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).