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From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
To: 75170@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75170: add-to-alist: new function
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:34:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874j2nm1zn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878qrzm4sb.fsf@gnu.org> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:33:56 -0600")

On Sat, Dec 28 2024, Roland Winkler wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Stephen Gildea wrote:
>> Here's a handy function I'd like to see added to Emacs 21:
>> add-to-alist.

I forgot to say: I could not find any follow-up or discussion of
Stephen's proposal

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2001-02/msg00066.html

I know about the very different approaches underlying the function
add-to-list compared to the macro pushnew.  I followed the design of
add-to-list as I am thinking (like Stephen) of similar use cases.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-29  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-29  5:33 bug#75170: add-to-alist: new function Roland Winkler
2024-12-29  6:34 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2024-12-29  7:54   ` Juri Linkov
2024-12-29 14:54     ` Roland Winkler
2024-12-29  7:33 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-12-29  7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-29 14:50   ` Roland Winkler

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