helpful

commit f8350169db7a8d77fc3e5389ad0d7bd864a0eb0a
parent 99b1215d2718e5a46003bd7c738275125db7b896
Author: Wilfred Hughes <me@wilfred.me.uk>
Date:   Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:44:15 +0100

Pretty-print primitive values

As of 1d2954b we pretty-print keymaps and hooks by default, but this
broke display of variables of other types. Fix that.

Diffstat:
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CHANGELOG.md
 | 
2
+-
M
helpful.el
 | 
3
+--

2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # v0.15 (unreleased)
 
-No changes yet.
+Fixed a crash on formatting values.
 
 # v0.14
 
diff --git a/helpful.el b/helpful.el
@@ -1910,8 +1910,7 @@ state of the current symbol."
                 (consp val))
            (helpful--format-hook val))
           (t
-           (error "don't know how to format value of type %s"
-                  (type-of val))))
+           (helpful--pretty-print val)))
          "\n\n")
         (when multiple-views-p
           (insert (helpful--make-toggle-literal-button) " "))