From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Better way to make sure external command exists in the system? Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:10:00 +0100 Message-ID: <874kgzlz2v.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87y2ego29q.fsf@zoho.eu> <87o8faxkfd.fsf@zoho.eu> <877dlvp9al.fsf@zoho.eu> <87lfabm04s.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg 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="15933"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:uctVbXmUNvOCv+5MTGkm6yAaE+g= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 22:15:59 2021 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 1lPXKg-0003yS-VN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:15:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56916 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lPXKf-00035C-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:15:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40682) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lPXJp-000354-JG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:59044) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lPXJn-0005i1-UC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lPXJl-0002oa-S2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:15:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128587 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: >> Use a set function >> >> (cl-map 'list #'number-to-string '(1 2 3)) ; ("1" "2" "3") > > But why use Emacs Lisp CL library and complexer Common Lisp > style when it works this way simpler: > > (mapcar #'number-to-string '(1 2 3)) → ("1" "2" "3") > > Any reason? > > Then if I am to use some function defined in Emacs Lisp, > then I would rather use this one, instead of `cl-map', as it > is simpler, it will recognize the sequence. > > (seq-map #'number-to-string '(1 2 3)) → ("1" "2" "3") Sure, use the one you like the best. Post the code again when you are done. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal