From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting up abbrev Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:39:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87tu6wchw5.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87k07sfywz.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12620"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sDaeG7L30uRNWMotp/rmKkwNg9Q= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 13:42:18 2022 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 1oIToQ-000310-5z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:42:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59990 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIToO-0002Zx-Ad for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:42:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oITlo-0001wd-L4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:58240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oITlk-0007IH-Vx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oITlg-000A93-Va for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:39:28 +0200 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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138711 Archived-At: uzibalqa wrote: >> ;;; -- lexical-binding: t -- >> >> ;; (kill-all-abbrevs) >> (let ((write '( >> ("lex" ";;; -- lexical-binding: t --") >> ("sld" "sdl") >> ("wierd" "weird") >> ))) >> (define-abbrev-table 'global-abbrev-table write) ) > > I see that you make a list of three elements, each of which > is a list of two elements. Well yes, but maybe it's better to think of that as data and the number of elements are perhaps of no importance here. > Had been using (sld" . "sdl") thing instead. I know why it doesn't work then ... Anyhow, the so-called dotted pair notation tells us that the universal data structure actually isn't a list, but a pair! Only a pair is a list as well ... In practice - here, someone maybe disagrees? - but in my experience I don't see why that should be used ... And I don't know why it was ever essential to the point it even got to symbolize Lisp on a couple of occasions? Maybe that box diagram with arrows to make up a cons cell link-list-fragment just looked neat and interesting ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal