* On cl-print and help-fns @ 2017-06-30 2:10 Mark Oteiza 2017-06-30 6:11 ` Stefan Monnier 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Mark Oteiza @ 2017-06-30 2:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-devel; +Cc: Stefan Monnier Hi, 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: On cl-print and help-fns 2017-06-30 2:10 On cl-print and help-fns Mark Oteiza @ 2017-06-30 6:11 ` Stefan Monnier 2017-07-01 3:29 ` Noam Postavsky 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Stefan Monnier @ 2017-06-30 6:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-devel > 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: On cl-print and help-fns 2017-06-30 6:11 ` Stefan Monnier @ 2017-07-01 3:29 ` Noam Postavsky 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Noam Postavsky @ 2017-07-01 3:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: Emacs developers On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 2:11 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > 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. You can now. [1: 23ff664fd2]: 2017-06-30 23:30:07 -0400 * lisp/help-fns.el (describe-variable): Let-bind cl-print-compiled-button. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=23ff664fd24dbdd8cc5b9d1fb68423fe6592b0a0 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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