From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Replacement for `aput' from obsolete assoc.el?
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:46:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txyrnhxi.fsf@web.de> (raw)
Hello,
I make much use of `aput' from assoc.el in my .emacs. It lets me modify
the value associated with a certain key in an alist, where keys are
compared with `equal'.
I often saw people reinventing this function who didn't yet know
assoc.el. Now, assoc.el is obsolete. I'm not against that, since there
were not many useful things in assoc.el besides `aput'.
But I wonder if there is a simple replacement for `aput' in vanilla
Emacs? I don't think so, but maybe I have overseen something.
If not, can we add a new function `assoc-delete-all' to subr.el (which
would be like `assq-delete-all', but would compare keys with `equal'
instead of `eq')? Dunno why this function does not exist yet, but it
would ease handling alists e.g. if its keys are strings.
Thanks,
Michael.
next reply other threads:[~2012-06-04 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-04 16:46 Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2012-06-05 3:27 ` Replacement for `aput' from obsolete assoc.el? Christopher Schmidt
2012-06-05 17:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-05 19:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-06-05 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-08 7:57 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-06-08 12:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-08 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-09 8:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-09 9:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-09 10:13 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-06-10 12:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-09 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-09 16:17 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-09 11:32 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-06-10 12:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-09 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-10 0:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-10 13:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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