From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Locating file via load-path Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:39:03 +0300 Message-ID: <86zfplj5s8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <868qx6n9ug.fsf@gnu.org> <86zfpml0sq.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20495"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 10 07:39:50 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1scepQ-0005Cb-L1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:39:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sceom-0004QQ-7J; Sat, 10 Aug 2024 01:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sceok-0004QG-Rh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2024 01:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sceok-0002wH-J8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2024 01:39:06 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=gj5WPmrORmusNrFXMIj5Lw5Wa2nYQDxxQ4qMEupH6o8=; b=meoLEBSPZn1k3HOUk2tM ZC8IC4XB5skOLU6/pZyPXWYKkn85w0mg164L6PtEmrU/TMpubA8iMTFES9EkFxw6I77HheJRFz4nT hryyPYHJHl510wBrbNkcIk8gUIXdTBJBBXU7hlS4rQabLs4BTuimfwdtlzoSFB5EP+EA80WYRU7Fc YGx9N0aYhoBkptHzMK+e2FpsTxM8mXg6tMUPBatcUppa7Y1BN1sxH6YUWkj1KXJt0h27sCbLdpq6/ O8iQwL6HbEwLas27U1QESB021E37VrQ7hqH5K6/dKZRVXrV+aolMryUaL4qyjZjyZO0fwwL9fr6u4 5sQtf/abvhQXhQ==; In-Reply-To: (message from Arash Esbati on Fri, 09 Aug 2024 21:52:24 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147584 Archived-At: > From: Arash Esbati > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 21:52:24 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > This is handy to add some elements to configuration variables, > > but please do not abuse it in Elisp code, where you are usually > > better off using ‘push’ or ‘cl-pushnew’. > > > > IOW, don't (ab)use add-to-list if all you need is to add a new element > > to some list of elements. > > Maybe off-topic, but I always missed the APPEND arg provided by > `add-to-list' in `cl-pushnew'. If the order matters, then perhaps cl-pushnew is not what you want. Or maybe you need to sort the list in some way. The order rarely matters if all you need is to construct a list of arbitrary elements.