GNU bug report logs - #65680
cl-print-to-string-with-limit erroneously imposes a maximum print-length of 50

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Message #25 received at 65680 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 65680 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#65680: cl-print-to-string-with-limit erroneously imposes a
 maximum print-length of 50
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 21:33:53 +0300

> Cc: acm <at> muc.de, 65680 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:07:58 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> > [ IOW, I'm not happy with commit
> >   761f8901fffdb155cbcc7f3b5a2329161c2c1826.  ]
> 
> Well I did post about it to emacs-devel on Sunday and Monday, asking if
> anybody had any objection.  Nobody, not even you, responded.

TTTT, 2 days is too short a time to assume no one has anything to say
about a change.  I had a busy day and just couldn't get to it, before
I saw you have already installed it.

> To solve this problem properly, we need, as Eli has suggested, a separate
> variable called something like print-string-length, to be set
> independently of print-length (and print-level).  A sensible value for
> this variable in printing backtraces might be, say, 500.

500 is too large a value, my vote is for 200 at most.

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