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Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: pp-eval-expression enhancements
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:48:28 +0300
User-agent: 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...)

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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