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From: Hikaru Ichijyo <ichijyo@macross.sdf.jp>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: logical not condition in ibuffer config
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:17:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8xxbmft27qc.fsf@macross.sdf.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 864llmz77w.fsf@zoho.com

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> This is not exactly Lisp but rather a common
> computer data hierarchy that is expressed as
> list and then parsed as configuration data by
> the Lisp program... whatever.
>
> The easiest way to do what you want is probably
> to find out the priority *order* by which the
> data structure gets traversed.
>
> Then, first put the general case (all Elisp)
> somewhere, only after that explicitly put the
> exception/the specific case (bbdb) wherever you
> want it instead, so that rule overwrites the
> general case rule (which otherwise applies to
> both cases).
>
> By the way, this level of perfectionism...
> start digging into Elisp today as it'll just
> get worse.

It sounds like you're explaining the algorithm.  I understand that.  I
need to know why Elisp will understand "or" operators in an ibuffer
configuration but not "and" or "not"...or suggestions of how "and" or
"not" could be coded that would work.

-- 
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself.
					--Thomas Paine


  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-12  5:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-11 20:17 logical not condition in ibuffer config Hikaru Ichijyo
2018-03-11 20:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-12  5:17   ` Hikaru Ichijyo [this message]
2018-03-12  5:30     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-12  6:27       ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-13 17:05     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-03-12  9:12 ` Yuri Khan
     [not found] ` <mailman.10449.1520845963.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-03-12 14:15   ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2018-03-12 18:52     ` Emanuel Berg

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