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Document cl-print.el in the CL manual.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Subject: bug#66267: closed (Re: bug#66267: Document cl-print.el in the CL
 manual.)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:16:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#66267: Document cl-print.el in the CL manual.

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 66267 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66267-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#66267: Document cl-print.el in the CL manual.
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:15:05 +0000

Hello, Eli.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 15:02:57 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:42:13 +0000
> > Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 66267 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

[ .... ]

> > > ??? You say "abbreviating it with ellipses".  "It" is singular, so it
> > > gets abbreviated with only one ellipsis, not with several ones.

> > Not necessarily.  Something like a cons structure or vector printed by
> > cl-prin1 can have several, or even many ellipses in it.  Last week I got
> > a line from an ERT backtrace containing 42 ellipses - which incidentally
> > made it nearly useless for debugging.

> Then something like this is in order, I think:

>   Use this function with @code{cl-prin1} to print an object, possibly
>   abbreviating it with one or more ellipses to fit within the size
>   limit.

I've put that text into cl.texi, thanks.  I've tidied up a few
trivialities, inserted that cross-reference we talked about, and
committed the change to master.

I'm closing the bug with this post.

> > By the way, I forgot one detail about the patch.  I've written it on the
> > assumption that bug #66392 "Add raw printing for byte compiled functions
> > to cl-prin1, etc." gets OK'd.  Stefan M. has already explicitly expressed
> > no objection to it.  If that bug isn't OK, it's a simple matter to amend
> > the cl.texi patch.  Would you take a quick peep at it, please?  Thanks!

> I have no objections to it.

Thanks.  I've committed that change and closed that bug, too.

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Document cl-print.el in the CL manual.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:40:24 +0000

Hello, Emacs.

cl-print.el isn't documented in the cl manual at all.  This needs doing.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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