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'pp' causally mentioned

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34504: closed ('pp' causally mentioned)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 03:04:01 +0000

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 'pp' causally mentioned
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, 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.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34504-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: bug#34504: 'pp' causally mentioned
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:03:04 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 34504 notabug
> thanks
>
>> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>>     <jidanni <at> 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).

Already marked notabug, and from reading the discussion it doesn't look
like there's more to do here.  I'm therefore closing this bug.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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