From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: evaluation output too short
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:08:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-99B509.01081713072008@newsgroups.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1054b35f-81a4-41fd-ba84-8e688d9e203f@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com
In article
<1054b35f-81a4-41fd-ba84-8e688d9e203f@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
formido <formido@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I evaluate load-path (and presumbly other variables whose
> stringified form is "too" long), most of the result is truncated in
> the mini-buffer (and messages buffer). How can I send output to a
> scrollable buffer that shows the entire contents of the evaluation? I
> found describe-variable, but I don't want to have to bother with that
> every time I evaluate something.
Use the *scratch* buffer.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-13 5:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-13 1:23 evaluation output too short formido
2008-07-13 5:08 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2008-07-13 13:59 ` Drew Adams
2008-07-13 7:39 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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