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Re: C-x C-e with prefix arg
From: |
Xue Fuqiao |
Subject: |
Re: C-x C-e with prefix arg |
Date: |
Sun, 5 May 2013 07:31:20 +0800 |
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
> How about letting the particular prefix arg control whether to print the full
> value?
Good idea.
> You use a prefix arg to insert the value in the current buffer at point. How
> often do you really want the inserted value to have pieces missing (elided)?
> You typically want to (edit and) use the inserted value in code you are
> writing,
> no?
>
> How about letting a non-negative prefix arg insert the full value (in effect,
> binding `eval-expression-print-length' and `eval-expression-print-level' to
> nil)? And letting a negative prefix arg do what any prefix arg does today:
> respect the current values of `eval-expression-print-length' and
> `eval-expression-print-level'?
Agreed. Would you like to submit a patch here or to bug-gnu-emacs?
> Today, to get the full value inserted you need to avoid `C-x C-e' and instead
> select the sexp and use `eval-region' - or use some other workaround.
That's true. It's somewhat annnoying.
--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
- C-x C-e with prefix arg, Drew Adams, 2013/05/03
- Re: C-x C-e with prefix arg,
Xue Fuqiao <=
- Re: C-x C-e with prefix arg, Juri Linkov, 2013/05/05
- RE: C-x C-e with prefix arg, Drew Adams, 2013/05/05
- Re: C-x C-e with prefix arg, Juri Linkov, 2013/05/05
- RE: C-x C-e with prefix arg, Drew Adams, 2013/05/06
- Re: C-x C-e with prefix arg, Juri Linkov, 2013/05/06
- RE: C-x C-e with prefix arg, Drew Adams, 2013/05/06
- Re: C-x C-e with prefix arg, Juri Linkov, 2013/05/06
- RE: C-x C-e with prefix arg, Drew Adams, 2013/05/06