From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On cl-print and help-fns
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 02:11:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh8yy9fdx.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170630021020.GA27460@holos.localdomain
> While cl-print is a nice feature, I am puzzled why its use in the help
> buffer is neither documented nor configurable.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=2c18969c8
> I think that "Its value is #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode>)", while
> less messy, is less useful than just seeing the bytecode, as the bytecode
> would at least give me a clue. The cl-prin1-to-string output is opaque.
Maybe we should default cl-print-compiled to `static`, so as to hide the
byte-code, but still show the constants used in the code?
Stefan
PS: Oh, and IIUC in the latest version of the code, you might be
able to click on the #<bytecode> to see a disassembly of the code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-30 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-30 2:10 On cl-print and help-fns Mark Oteiza
2017-06-30 6:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-07-01 3:29 ` Noam Postavsky
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