GNU bug report logs - #24051
24.5; doc of `external-debugging-output'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:02:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 24051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>, phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk
Cc: 24051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#24051: 24.5; doc of `external-debugging-output'
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:49:04 -0800 (PST)

> Yeah, I think it's already occured to me twice at least where I couldn't
> remember the name of this function, and I ended up searching through
> src/print.c.
> 
> I don't think it fits under "Output Functions" though, as it says:
> 
>     This section describes the Lisp functions for printing Lisp
>     objects--converting objects into their printed representation.
> 
> It's rather an example of an output stream, so it should go in the
> previous section:

Agreed.

And it might be good to add an example that shows use of it,
e.g., with `print'.
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