From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Generating a listing of all symbols (16K+) and labeling subsets Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:27:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87r44u64ks.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> References: <86c20aeb-e709-4098-8a44-005c9e5925cd@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397834833 30334 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2014 15:27:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Hans BKK Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 18 17:27:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WbAh1-0000Lc-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:27:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38620 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbAh1-0003YN-Fn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbAgh-0003VL-Ns for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:26:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbAga-0006E3-3I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:26:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:25952) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbAgZ-0006DK-Rr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:26:40 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiwGAGJDUVOkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABarj6ZYIEzdIImAQV5EAshJQ8BBA08E4gsAQMRqkObCQFKDYZrF4dfhGqCGQeEOAEDlQCCAIgvhj2FUYMzOw Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 18 Apr 2014 17:26:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <86c20aeb-e709-4098-8a44-005c9e5925cd@googlegroups.com> (Hans BKK's message of "Fri, 18 Apr 2014 07:55:29 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97202 Archived-At: Hans BKK writes: > I realize there is overlap, hence the duplication of tests for > primitive vs lisp etc within multiple buckets. And within a given cond > level, order is by (my judgement) of priority - commands first, ID as > a functions before values, user options before setq ones, etc. Some symbols are just symbols. every time the lisp reader reads something, symbols are interned. Currently I have 76920 symbols in obarray. If you want to have a report of useful symbols used in a package you can do e.g. for smerge-mode: M-x apropos RET ^smerge- RET -- Nico.