The nil (again) without the quote of course

On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 15:16, dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com> wrote:

> (@stefan Did not notice it was a group message)
>
> Not really, I think. But if so then I guess we could just call it with
> list-colors-sort set to nil:
> ```
> (let ((list-colors-sort 'nil))
>   (list-colors-display (mapcar #'car shr-color-html-colors-alist)
>                        nil))
> ```
>
>
>
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 14:47, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
>
>> dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > The snippet passes colors form the shr-color-html-colors-alist variable
>> > to list-colors-display. However, currently, despite the docstring
>> > suggesting to me something different, the list-colors-display function
>> > only applies its sort functionality if no list is passes as argument.
>> > I don't see a good reason for that limitation, because the limitation is
>> > set using a when condition, while the sort function works perfectly fine
>> > with custom color-lists (e.g. try the snippet above).
>> >
>> > So this patch simply removes the (when (null list)) condition, and
>> > passes the list, if given, to the sort functionality.
>> > Adapting the docstring is not necessary as it already suggests that
>> the  sort functionality works in general.
>>
>> Is there any situation in which you wouldn't want the list sorted?
>>
>