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bug#34504: 'pp' causally mentioned
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#34504: 'pp' causally mentioned |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:28:12 +0200 |
tags 34504 notabug
thanks
> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 03:33:50 +0800
>
> In (info "(emacs) Program Indent") it says:
> Emacs also provides a Lisp pretty-printer in the ‘pp’ package, which
> reformats Lisp objects with nice-looking indentation."
>
> OK, as there is no hyperlink to click on
In my version of the manual, that sentence is followed by a hyperlink:
Emacs also provides a Lisp pretty-printer in the ‘pp’ package, which
reformats Lisp objects with nice-looking indentation. *Note pp:
(elisp)Output Functions.
> say the user eventually finds
> that indeed there is
> $ dlocate /pp\\.
> emacs-el: /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/emacs-lisp/pp.el.gz
> and loads it, but he still cannot use it because there is no further
> example of how, provided, even within that file. E.g., you could mention
> how to pretty print one's .emacs with it.
pp doesn't by itself pretty-print files, it can only pretty-print Lisp
objects (as the hyperlinked node of the ELisp manual describes).