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‘describe-variable’ unconditionally let-binds ‘print-circle’ to t

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, Sebastian Miele <iota <at> whxvd.name>, 64835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64835: ‘describe-variable’ unconditionally let-binds ‘print-circle’ to t
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:55:15 -0400

> Any way we can toggle print-circle interactively in the display? Perhaps
> along with depth or length limits.

I think it would be fairly easy to print with `print-circle` by default
and allow users to click on the confusing #N= or #N# to switch to
a display without `print-circle`, but I'm not sure it would help the
confused users very much.

And doing the opposite (i.e. starting from the non-print-circle output)
seems a lot less obvious/natural :-(


        Stefan

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