From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to convert a keyboard macro to a string? Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:34:02 +0200 Message-ID: <86a83rszt1.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87a83r4t43.fsf@jane> <86mv7rt9y2.fsf@zoho.com> <20170726202253.GA16445@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501101303 31260 195.159.176.226 (26 Jul 2017 20:35:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:35:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 22:34:57 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daT13-0007Hv-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:34:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daT19-0007hr-9E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daT0i-0007hf-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daT0f-0002vh-H8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37936 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daT0f-0002tH-AL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daT0U-0005bQ-E7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:34:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q71FlCxY3xXz+YJED1SJSy37/sg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113883 Archived-At: > Not the Pope here, by a long stretch, but the > reason is in the (Elisp) doc ("6 Sequences, > Arrays, Vectors"): a vector is constant access > time for the nth element, while on a list you > need time proportional to the number n (i.e. > you have to "walk down" the list to access its > nth element (or rather, the little Lisp gremlin > has to do it for you). Yes, constant access time instead of linear. Different data structures. Temporal complexity... or perhaps spacial? I don't remember. But *how* does this happen? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573