From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Replacement for `aput' from obsolete assoc.el? Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:39:56 +0900 Message-ID: <87pq9a7zab.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87txyrnhxi.fsf@web.de> <87oboytp45@ch.ristopher.com> <87haupwo6b.fsf@web.de> <871ulq44oj.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339159223 2217 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2012 12:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vitalie Spinu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 14:40:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ScyUH-0002rg-Hs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScyUH-0007yO-3O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScyU9-0007y8-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:40:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScyU3-00064a-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:35958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ScyU3-0005t0-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EFAC3FA086D; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 21:39:57 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 03EC21A355D; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 21:39:56 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <871ulq44oj.fsf@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" b4715fcbe001 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.223 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150836 Archived-At: Vitalie Spinu writes: > This is essential. A lot of packages store settings in alists, and there > is no handy function to alter the values inside those. It's precisely for this reason that XEmacs recommends plists over alists. Nobody will shoot you for using an alist, but plists do have a better API.