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From: | npostavs |
Subject: | bug#25122: 24.5; function describe-variable hangs on large variables |
Date: | Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:59:05 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes: > Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > >> I think the better way out is to do less work. E.g. bound the total >> amount printed (and replace the rest with "..." that can be expanded on >> demand). Yes, there's no method that will achieve "instant" speeds for load-history sized lists (well except for plain prin1, but that output is hardly readable). > The problem will be here again when you hit RET on "..." Perhaps we could run the printing in a thread and suspend it after printing X lines. Then hitting RET on "..." would just print another X lines.
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