From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there already an alist function which gets all matching elements, not just the first?
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 20:35:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a66a2k5m.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1tum8z8.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:16:43 +0000")
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> Perhaps a `map-member' could be implemented that would do something like
> what you are looking for? Or does this already exist by some other name
> (I don't really use map.el). I've certainly wanted something like this
> more than a few times.
There's `map-filter'... Hm... but it takes a predicate, which makes it
not as convenient as (say) `assq'.
So, yes, perhaps there should be a... `map-members'? `map-all-members'?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-05 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-05 10:00 Is there already an alist function which gets all matching elements, not just the first? Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-05 10:45 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-06 18:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-05 18:16 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-05 18:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-10-06 18:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
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