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> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:17:55 +0200
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> > > * https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Association-Lists.html sometimes assoc,
> > >  alist-get, assq, copy-alist. How am I supposed to use `C-h f alist TAB` to discover the function I want? I
> > >  can't, I have to go to that webpage and read it all.
> > 
> > I think "C-h d alist RET" is your friend.
> 
> Yes, but :)
> 
> For people with some roots in Lisp culture (I'm one of them,
> mind you), "alist" is obvious. It's an association list, duh.
> For newcomers... not so much.

I was replying to the above, where the issue is that not all of the
functions' names begin with "alist".  Evidently, this means the
"alist" obstacle was already overcome.