Re: Using org-agenda-time-grid with lists

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 at 6:23 PM
> From: "TRS-80" <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Using org-agenda-time-grid with lists
>
> On 2020-12-11 11:48, steve-humphreys@gmx.com wrote:
> > TRS-80 wrote:
> >> On 2020-12-11 10:45, steve-humphreys@gmx.com wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Incidentally, how can one print a list in messages buffer?
> >>
> >> Do you mean something other than standard:
> >
> > Correct, something other than "%s".
> >
> >>
> >> ```
> >> (message "%s" my-list)
> >> ```
> >> I wrote some quite involved function to take a list of variables and
> >> print them to Messages buffer, formatting them nicely.  I use it when
> >> debugging and writing code.  However I am not sure that is what you
> >> are
> >> looking for or not?
> >
> > What is the biggest problem with printing lists that you have
> > encountered?
>
> I don't have any problem printing simple list.  Well, maybe one case.
> If the list is too long (because you only get some part of it in
> Messages buffer).  In that case, I do my function in fundamental-mode
> with C-j (I think?)  which put the results in the same buffer.  Then you
> can do <TAB> (or maybe it's <RET>?) and that will expand to the full
> result, if you need to look at that.
>
> But the reason I wrote my function was because I wanted to provide short
> list of (separate) variables and have them print out to nicely formatted
> message as intermediate structure code and/or for debugging purposes.
> Which is nothing to do with lists, per say.

Perhaps you might get some ideas from
https://github.com/oantolin/icomplete-vertical

> > Cheers always sounds better on a friday. :)
>
> You make me thirsty all of a sudden!  :)

:)

> Cheers,
> TRS-80
>
>