Re: more than one-line minibuffer needed for eval-last-sexp output

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

Eli> [Still using a fake address, despite the many requests not to, do
Eli> you?  What would it take to get you to respect those requests, I
Eli> wonder?]

[A cherry pie with no dairy products.  Actually I see that in other
newsgroups many noted figures do indeed use bogus addresses, so if I
wanted to be a noted figure... OK, I suppose I must push up the date
when I will learn the 'procmail' thingy by a few months... but not yet
:-) . I am too busy finding the rest of the blemishes in "emacs
classic".]

Eli> On 20 Jan 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:

>> OK, go to the *scratch* buffer, or most buffers actually.  Type:
>> auto-mode-alist ^X^E to do a eval-last-sexp on this rather long
>> valued variable, or your favorite other long valued variable.
>> 
>> Notice that the minibuffer doesn't crack open to give you the
>> several lines needed to display the value.

Eli> This is solved in the next version 21.1 which is now in pretest.

>> anyways obviously something should be done in order to usefully see
>> the output.

Eli> You can press C-j (or LFD, if your keyboard has that key), then
Eli> the result is inserted into *scratch*, where the one-line
Eli> limitation doesn't exist.

But just like I said last message
Dan> Sure one can hit ^U^X^E but that's not the point.
and ^J=^U^X^E here, ok never mind, glad to hear it's fixed.
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