Methods for examining large/complicated lisp objects

Question

I've been working with some org export engine code which passes around some rather large and complex list objects. It's rather tedious to explore an object by reading through a long word-wrapped printed representation of an object or iteratively writing and evaluating accessors in the scratch buffer. I and am wondering if there are any good methods for interactively examining values.

Take for example: many IDE's that present object values in an interactive tree view which permits incrementally expanding keys/values. The object is persistently shown on the screen and can be examined without much concern about the value types being viewed. A random screenshot of Chrome developer tools as illustration:

Other tools present values as navigable popovers (functionally very similar). A random screenshot from Visual Studio:

Is there anything similar for emacs lisp? Perhaps something built into edebug or provided by another package? Or is this just waiting to be developed?

Note: I discovered pp and pp+ shortly after posting this question. The formatting is incredibly helpful in visually navigating object structure. It saves needing to modify print-length and print-depth to extreme values and formatting the output in a separate buffer.

Answer 1

I found the function pp-eval-last-sexp-with-tooltip in the pp+ package is a great general-purpose solution for this. It is effectively the same as eval-last-sexp, but neatly formats the return value and displays it as a tooltip. Values larger than pp-max-tooltip-size (x-max-tooltip-size) are shown in a separate window.

I have it bound to C-x C-e at the moment:

(require 'pp+)
(define-key global-map (kbd "C-x C-e") #'pp-eval-last-sexp-with-tooltip)