🚮 Added Dump

JuliaPluto · Sep 27, 2020 · a9df6cc · a9df6cc · fonsp · Sep 27, 2020
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diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "PlutoUI"
 uuid = "7f904dfe-b85e-4ff6-b463-dae2292396a8"
 authors = ["Fons van der Plas <[email protected]>"]
-version = "0.6.4"
+version = "0.6.5"
 
 [deps]
 Base64 = "2a0f44e3-6c83-55bd-87e4-b1978d98bd5f"

diff --git a/src/Terminal.jl b/src/Terminal.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export with_terminal
+export with_terminal, Dump
 
 import Suppressor: @color_output, @capture_out, @capture_err
 import Logging:  ConsoleLogger, with_logger
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ end
 ```julia
 with_terminal(dump, [1,2,[3,4]])
 ```
+
+See also [PlutoUI.Dump](@ref).
            
 """
 function with_terminal(f::Function, args...; kwargs...)
@@ -62,4 +64,17 @@ function with_terminal(f::Function, args...; kwargs...)
             $(isempty(spam_err) ? "" : "<pre class='err'>" * htmlesc(spam_err) * "</pre>")
         </div>
         """)
+end
+
+"""
+    Dump(x; maxdepth=8)
+
+Show every part of the representation of a value. The depth of the output is truncated at maxdepth. 
+
+This is a variant of [`Base.dump`](@ref) that returns the representation directly, instead of printing it to stdout.
+"""
+function Dump(x; maxdepth=8)
+	sprint() do io
+		dump(io, x; maxdepth=maxdepth)
+	end |> Text
 end