Hi, lloda <ll...@sarc.name> skribis:
> I think excessive output is a more serious problem, because it should be > possible to go to a backtrace frame and look at objects directly. On the > other hand, it should also be possible to C-c when guile starts to flood the > terminal. But neither of these workarounds is reliable :-/ Ultimately this > printing should be configurable. > > We already have the repl-option system (repl-option-set! repl 'print ...). > This system doesn't apply to exception messages nor backtraces. I think if it > did, that would mostly solve the problem. Yes. Right now it’s just $COLUMNS; we should have a documented SRFI-39 parameter for that. > I also think that, besides options to truncate or not, we should have a pager > (display at most a page, give options to next/stop/all). That would be the > best default. Yes! Ludo’.
