Info Catalog elisp: Debugging elisp: Top elisp: Minibuffers

elisp: Read and Print

 
 18 Reading and Printing Lisp Objects
 ************************************
 
 “Printing” and “reading” are the operations of converting Lisp objects
 to textual form and vice versa.  They use the printed representations
 and read syntax described in Lisp Data Types.
 
    This chapter describes the Lisp functions for reading and printing.
 It also describes “streams”, which specify where to get the text (if
 reading) or where to put it (if printing).
 

Menu

 
· Streams Intro     Overview of streams, reading and printing.
· Input Streams     Various data types that can be used as input streams.
· Input Functions   Functions to read Lisp objects from text.
· Output Streams    Various data types that can be used as output streams.
· Output Functions  Functions to print Lisp objects as text.
· Output Variables  Variables that control what the printing functions do.
 

Info Catalog elisp: Debugging elisp: Top elisp: Minibuffers