From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: elisp question: how to walk through a variable like special-display-buffer-names Date: 14 Jan 2004 00:45:32 +1100 Organization: Netspace Internet Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074004324 18805 80.91.224.253 (13 Jan 2004 14:32:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 15:31:55 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AgPaF-0004iK-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:31:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AgOs4-0005fE-TN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:46:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-203-33-162-54.nsw.netspace.net.au Original-X-Trace: otis.netspace.net.au 1074001537 73709 203.33.162.54 (13 Jan 2004 13:45:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@otis.netspace.net.au Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:45:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120039 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15981 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15981 hi there i want to walk through the list in special-display-buffer-names (and special-display-regexps), in order to find out if the left parameter is set in the contained alist. emacs itself m,ust do similar things after creating frames, but i couldn't find a hint in emacs' lisp-files. so, are there some ready made functions to walk through "lists of elements which are possbily again lists containing a car (buffer-name) with an alist (frame-parameters)." even harder and more interesting for the special=display-regexps case... thanks in advance, leo