Re: Inspecting functions returning complicated values

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> assume that I want to inspect a function whose return value is a long,
> deeply nested list.  I found this way to present it in a readable way:
>
> M-: (setq blah-blah (function-returning-hairy-stuff))
> C-h C-v blah-blah
>
> This seems a bit awkward, however.  Is there a better/cleaner way?
>
> TIA,

It can also be interesting to start an IELM repl and do things to the
return value there.