[slime-devel] Re: Inspector doc

[Michael Weber]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 22:56 , Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:

> Madhu <enometh at meer.net> writes:
>
>> Helu, I'm having trouble using the inspector effectively: some  
>> objects
>> are truncated, some lists are truncated etc.  These boil down to
>> bindings of printer variables [the debug state, etc]
>
> On a related note, I don't like the overly aggressive truncating in
> backtraces that was introduced recently, and is probably related to  
> the
> how it's done in the inspector.

On a related note, inspecting strings with embedded newlines is not  
that useful anymore, I can choose between immediate truncation and  
seeing them character by character.

Example: (list (format nil "~%long string"))


Cheers,
M/