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Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:12:19 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I'm afraid that it's still too early: the user still has to decide where the
>> result goes before seeing that result. A better option might be to provide
>> a new command that can be executed right after M-: which would show the last
>> result in a separate buffer, pretty printed, highlighted, and all.
> I think a new display command to execute after M-: can be useful only
> when the user doesn't know beforehand what the output will look like.
> But in most cases before executing M-: or M-!, I know what the output
> I expect and what I want to do with the output (search/edit/copy-paste...)
That's very much not my case. The way I typically use M-: is as follows:
- M-: <something> RET
[ doesn't give me what I want, either because of a typo, or because
I need to refine the command. ]
- M-: M-p <edit> RET
[ still doesn't give me what I want. ]
- M-: M-p <moreedits> RET
[ Ah, now that's what I wanted to see. ]
- And now, if I need to see the result elsewhere, then I'll do
C-u M-: M-p RET
So even if I know that I will want to insert the output at point, I still
want to first see this result to make sure that it's indeed the one I want.
Stefan
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, (continued)
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/24
- RE: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Drew Adams, 2007/07/24
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/24
- RE: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Drew Adams, 2007/07/24
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/24
- RE: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Drew Adams, 2007/07/24
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/24
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/25
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/25
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/26
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/25
- Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/25