From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looping lists through mapcar Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:52:45 +0300 Message-ID: References: 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="10288"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) Cc: uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor To: uzibalqa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 13:19:02 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 1oQoPW-0002Pz-Nt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:19:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49134 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQoPV-0002og-Kk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 07:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQo0f-0000bs-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:37977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQo0d-000477-Uz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.35.0]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5AF4.000000006306031B.00004438; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 03:53:14 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: uzibalqa , uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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:139037 Archived-At: * uzibalqa [2022-08-24 12:04]: > ------- Original Message ------- > On Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 at 6:24 AM, Jean Louis wrote: > > > I cannot understand. Provide exactly what you mean. > > Here is what I mean. When I have many alists (`andromeda-assoc-table-N' where `N' is a numeric value > with say `N' being from 1 to 57), I want to avoid having to write them all down inside the function > `andromeda-translate'. I got it now. (defvar nscrip '()) (defconst andromeda-assoc-table-1 '( ("OrycteropusAfer" . "Aardvark") ("VicugnaPacos" . "Alpaca") ("MyrmecophagaTridactyla" . "Anteater") )) (defconst andromeda-assoc-table-2 '( ("Dasypodidae" . "Armadillo") ("TaxideaTaxus" . "Badger") ("Beaver" . "Beaver") )) (defconst andromeda-assoc-table-3 '( ("LynxRufus" . "Bobcat") ("LepomisMacrochirus" . "Bluegill") ("RangiferTarandus" . "Caribou") )) (defun my-assoc-lists () (let* ((name "andromeda-assoc-table-") (list '()) (counter 1)) (while (boundp (intern (concat name (number-to-string counter)))) (setq list (append list (symbol-value (intern (concat name (number-to-string counter)))))) (setq counter (1+ counter))) list)) ;; Testing (my-assoc-lists) ⇒ (("OrycteropusAfer" . "Aardvark") ("VicugnaPacos" . "Alpaca") ("MyrmecophagaTridactyla" . "Anteater") ("Dasypodidae" . "Armadillo") ("TaxideaTaxus" . "Badger") ("Beaver" . "Beaver") ("LynxRufus" . "Bobcat") ("LepomisMacrochirus" . "Bluegill") ("RangiferTarandus" . "Caribou")) (defun andromeda-translate () "Shorten word at point according to specific rules." (interactive) (let* ((bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'word)) (word (downcase (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds)))) (rplc "")) (goto-char (car bounds)) (add-to-list 'nscrip word) (dolist (aggr (my-assoc-lists)) (setq rplc (cdr (assoc word aggr))) (unless (null rplc) (add-to-list 'nscrip (replace-regexp-in-string word rplc word)))) )) ;; I did not test your function. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/