Re: Printing code made by a macro

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Sunday, August 6th, 2023 at 12:31 PM, Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> wrote:


> On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 20:43, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is there a proper way to display the code produced by a macro ? Perhaps call
> > a function to print it by passing the macro command ?
> > 
> > (print-code (mymacro (* 2 3) (* 5 8) ))
> > 
> > Which would print (+ 3 8)
> > 
> > How would one write print-code ?
> 
> 
> Hi Heime,
> 
> eev has a function, called "find-eppm", that takes a sexp, expands it
> with macro-expand, pretty-prints the expansion, and displays the
> pretty-printed code in a temporary buffer. 

You wrote eev ?

> If you'd like to try it, install eev, run this,
> 
> (require 'eev-load)
> 
> and then type `C-x C-e' after the last parenthesis here:
> 
> (find-eppm '
> 
> (define-minor-mode MAIN-mode
> "Help 1"
> :init-value t
> :global t
> :lighter (propertize " MAIN" 'face 'region))
> 
> )
> 
> The reason for the "(require 'eev-load)" is explained here:
> 
> http://anggtwu.net/eev-intros/find-eev-quick-intro.html#1
> http://anggtwu.net/eev-current/eev-load.el.html#autoloads
> 
> Cheers,
> Edrx
>