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Output truncated

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jarecsni

#1 Tue Jan 17, 2017 10:22 pm

Hi, I'm new to this list and lisp

so apologies for the nature of this question. I'm using Allegro CL and it seems longer lists are abbreviated when output on the console. Does anyone know how to control this behaviour if at all possible.

pjstirling

#2 Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:30 am

Re: Output truncated

You probably want *print-readably*, but if you only care about avoiding the truncation you can bind *print-lines*, and *print-level* and *print-length*.

If you are using FORMAT then you will also want to use ~w instead of ~a

jarecsni

#3 Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:36 pm

Re: Output truncated

Works a treat, thanks!

jarecsni

#4 Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:29 pm

Re: Output truncated

Another quick question, what's the way to ensure these variables are set each time Allegro starts up?

pjstirling

#5 Fri Jan 20, 2017 11:03 pm

Re: Output truncated

Presumably allegro has an init file, but I've never used allegro so I cant tell you what it is.

Generally speaking you don't want to globally make changes to the pretty-printer variables, you should temporarily bind them with LET to the values you want for the print call in question.