From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:05:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ljo5d0.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ftcnxu5m.fsf@bernoul.li> <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="118893"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, kyle@kyleam.com, jonas@bernoul.li, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 29 12:06:31 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jTjbp-000UmT-Tr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:06:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37418 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTjbo-0004K8-VQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:06:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTjbE-0003fN-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51659) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTjbC-0006J9-5A; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3043 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTjbB-0007yY-JB; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:05:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:50:08 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248103 Archived-At: > From: Philippe Vaucher > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:50:08 +0200 > Cc: Jonas Bernoulli , Emacs developers , > Adam Porter , Kyle Meyer , > Stefan Monnier > > * 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. > * https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/List-Elements.html sometimes named > logically (nth, remove, append), sometimes named after implementation detail (car, cdr), and no grouping > at all so I can't `C-h f list TAB` Also, the 'i' command in Info. But you said you didn't want to read manuals, so I'm not sure why the examples are from the manual. Thanks.