Re: hash-table-{to, from}-alist

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ted Zlatanov writes:
 > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:10:38 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

 > >> IMHO hashtables should always be printed completely and should be
 > >> treated like lists and vectors.

XEmacs abbreviates all "large" atomic objects in Lisp backtraces,
AFAIK.  This includes anything with a plist.  But you can have your
preference by setting `print-readably' globally.

 > >> If, however, compatibility with XEmacs is desired or people feel
 > >> strongly for print-readably, I will implement with
 > >> print-readably.
 > 
 > SM> char tables are always printed in full and we haven't had any complaints
 > SM> about that, so you're probably right: let's just always print them
 > SM> in full.  If it turns out to be problematic in some cases, we can later
 > SM> on add some extra variable to control the level of detail.
 > 
 > Great.  Maybe XEmacs should add print-unreadably ;)

We already have that. (^^;