From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
Cc: rtt@dasyatidae.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ad-hoc list structure tutorializing
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:39:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1klmlZ-0004Oo-H8@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-292e05fb-6599-431d-a134-29bad9ede464-1607116372137@3c-app-mailcom-bs04> (message from Christopher Dimech on Fri, 4 Dec 2020 22:12:52 +0100)
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How about if we leave this part of Emacs alone and not spend time
discussing a tweak to it?
add-to-list is an old function which many users surely call.
The most important thing here is compatibility.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-06 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-04 2:17 Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted Arthur Miller
2020-12-04 2:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-04 2:36 ` Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 3:29 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-04 3:35 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-04 8:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-04 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-04 15:28 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-04 15:56 ` Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 16:14 ` Ad-hoc list structure tutorializing (was: Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted) Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 20:24 ` Ad-hoc list structure tutorializing Stefan Monnier
2020-12-04 21:12 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-05 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-06 5:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-06 5:57 ` Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-06 14:01 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-06 5:39 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-12-04 21:40 ` add-to-list vs cl-pushnew Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 21:51 ` Robin Tarsiger
2020-12-04 22:47 ` Sv: Ad-hoc list structure tutorializing (was: Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted) arthur miller
2020-12-04 17:03 ` Lispref add-to-list - doc is unnecessary convoluted Drew Adams
2020-12-04 17:24 ` arthur miller
2020-12-04 18:02 ` Drew Adams
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