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: Is there symbol-plist functionality in Emacs Lisp? Date: Sat, 08 May 2021 10:28:05 +0300 Message-ID: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3720"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 08 09:29:45 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 1lfHPD-0000ia-MR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 09:29:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57232 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfHP7-0006ha-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 03:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfHOX-0006hS-LV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 03:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:46009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfHOV-0000r8-Oy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 03:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:154.230.212.4]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ABF23.0000000060963D99.0000701C; Sat, 08 May 2021 00:28:24 -0700 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=support1@rcdrun.com; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com 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_PASS=-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:129560 Archived-At: The function `symbol-plist' in Emacs Lisp returns only properties: > (symbol-plist SYMBOL) > This function does not change global state, including the match data. While `symbol-plist' in Common Lisp returns the definition as below. Is there equivalent Emacs Lisp function that could return me the full definition of a function? (symbol-plist 'save-function) (SYSTEM::DEFINITION ((DEFUN SAVE-FUNCTION (F) "Saves the function in the file *my-function-dir*/function-name.lisp. Invoke it as: (SAVE-FUNCTION 'FUNCTION-NAME) or (SAVE-FUNCTION \"FUNCTION-NAME\")" (LET ((FUNCTION-NAME (CAR (CADR (SYMBOL-PLIST (INTERN (STRING-UPCASE F)))))) (FUNCTION-FILE (FORMAT NIL "~a/~a.lisp" *MY-FUNCTION-DIR* (STRING-DOWNCASE (SUBSTITUTE #\- #\? (IF (SYMBOLP F) (SYMBOL-NAME F) (SYMBOL-NAME (INTERN (STRING-UPCASE F))))))))) (WITH-OPEN-FILE (STR FUNCTION-FILE :DIRECTION :OUTPUT :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST :CREATE) (PRINT FUNCTION-NAME STR)))) . #(NIL NIL NIL NIL ((DECLARATION OPTIMIZE DECLARATION DYNAMICALLY-MODIFIABLE SYSTEM::IMPLEMENTATION-DEPENDENT)))) SYSTEM::DOC (SYSTEM::FILE ((SYSTEM::DEFUN/DEFMACRO #P"/home/data1/protected/bin/rcd/save-lisp.lisp" 8 8)))) Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/