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From: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Appending to a list
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 05:23:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-b87ab029-1117-4489-9003-ba65e768141d-1607919838615@3c-app-mailcom-bs09> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czzdyqra.fsf@web.de>

> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 at 5:07 AM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Appending to a list
>
> steve-humphreys@gmx.com writes:
>
> > Consider I have the following two templates, and want a make a list
> > named "tmplt-animal", which I can then pass to org-capture-templates.
> >
> > (setq org-capture-templates tmplt-animal)
> >
> > How can I use "push" to do that?
> >
> > -------- template code --------
> > [...]
>
> Seems your list is actually not an element to add that just happens to
> be a list, but a list of elements you want to add (but the elements are
> also lists again, ehem...)

I thought I could push element by element.

> In this case you want to `append' the lists, not `push'.  You may also
> define those bindings using `defvar' if you really want to set all the
> used variables at top level.

I got inspiration from some discussions here that push is more efficient
and wanted to have a go.  Yes, I do use push to make the larger list.
Have not thought about defvar before.  I have read that "setq" does not
introduce a variable, but I would need some explanation about that.

> Michael.
>
>
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-14  4:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-13 20:46 Appending to a list steve-humphreys
2020-12-13 21:03 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-13 21:30   ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-12-13 21:46     ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-13 22:37     ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-13 23:08       ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-13 22:43     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-13 23:25       ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-13 23:33         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-14  0:19           ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-14  0:37             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-14  2:54               ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-14  2:58                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-14  3:23                   ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-14  4:07                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-14  4:16                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-14  4:23                   ` steve-humphreys [this message]
2020-12-14  4:50                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-14  5:13                       ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-14  6:20                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-14  6:25                           ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-14  5:28                       ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-14  6:26                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-14 10:25                           ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-14  5:55                       ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-14  6:36                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-14 17:22                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-14 18:25                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-15  0:17                         ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-15  1:38                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-13 21:41   ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-13 23:31     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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