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ncauderan@hotmail.com (Norbert C.) writes:

>        I would lile to find the "good way" to retrieve multiple values
> for a given key in an alist.
>
>        But I didn't find a natural way to do it.

Oh, with (require 'cl), you could do

(remove-if-not (lambda (x) (eq (car x) KEY)) ALIST)

Is that natural?  It's short, anyway.
-- 
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