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changeset 38562:5a192d819ce2
Mention the effect of eval-expression-print-length and
eval-expression-print-level.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:25:47 +0000 |
| parents | af92753f4864 |
| children | 75f49513b989 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Wed Jul 25 16:24:58 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Wed Jul 25 16:25:47 2001 +0000 @@ -1140,10 +1140,19 @@ *** The commands to evaluate Lisp expressions, such as C-M-x in Lisp modes, C-j in Lisp Interaction mode, and M-:, now bind the variables -print-level, print-length, and debug-on-error based on the +print-level, print-length, and debug-on-error based on the new customizable variables eval-expression-print-level, eval-expression-print-length, and eval-expression-debug-on-error. +The default values for the first two of these variables are 12 and 4 +respectively, which means that `eval-expression' now prints at most +the first 12 members of a list and at most 4 nesting levels deep (if +the list is longer or deeper than that, an ellipsis `...' is +printed). + +The default value of eval-expression-debug-on-error is t, so any error +during evaluation produces a backtrace. + *** The function `eval-defun' (M-C-x) now loads Edebug and instruments code when called with a prefix argument.