Comments on: Data::Dumper in Emacs Lisp http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/data-dumper-in-emacs-lisp/ Leveraging Perl and Emacs Tue, 07 May 2013 11:25:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/data-dumper-in-emacs-lisp/#comment-8068 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:36:08 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=1016#comment-8068 Aw man, I’m a month too late (although I have a couple more ideas for my _h macro).

]]> By: Chris http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/data-dumper-in-emacs-lisp/#comment-8065 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:53:55 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=1016#comment-8065 As of Emacs 23.2, released just a month ago, hash tables have a printed s-exp representation, so this problem has been solved, recursively too, for any version of Emacs from here on. The normal printer and reader functions can be used now.

Since at least 2008 Emacs has also come with a JSON library, which works with hash tables. (require ‘json)

Neither of these pretty prints, with nice indenting, though. I guess that’s for another tool, like yours, to do.

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