Re: complicated code to do trivial (?) thing

[Anders Dalskov]

Emacs sometimes inserts an ellipsis if the result is longer than some
threshold (what that threshold is, I don't know).

Though this only happens with s-expressions, not strings, afaict. 

Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs writes:

> I wierd problem with messages has appeared
> in the system.
>
> It is described - or shown - in the source
> file [1], ~downmost, or lines 28-34.
>
> But in short, sometimes the echoed message is
> the intended
>
>     a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
>
> or
>
>     a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p
>
> but sometimes both examples (see the file)
> produces abbreviated messages, actually the
> same one:
>
>     a b c d e f g h i j k l ...
>
> Are long messages matched against messages
> already showed or showed recently and
> abbreviated as they are considered redundant as
> "have already been showed"?
>
> What do you know? What do you think?
> Excepts I should learn the English
> alphabet already?
>
>
> [1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/abc.el


-- 
- Anders