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> From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 22:30:49 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> When I see this it only confuses me. Sure those are great tools to find things in a broad sense, but there are
> so much noise that you have to filter. The only relevant functions I'd like to find are:
> 
> assoc, rassoc, assq, alist-get, rassq, assoc-default, copy-alist, assq-delete-all, assoc-delete-all,
> rassq-delete-all

How is Emacs supposed to know that only these are expected, and all
the rest are "noise"?  Here are a few other functions related to
alists that might be what you are looking for:

  alist-get
  nested-alist-p
  set-nested-alist

And that's just in "emacs -Q".

If we want more spot-on results, we should improve our completion
scoring.