From: Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de>
Subject: Re: elisp question: how to walk through a variable like special-display-buffer-names
Date: 13 Jan 2004 16:30:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk73vlvct.fsf@sdm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4y7jzv6g52.fsf@skjellgran.ii.uib.no
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Joakim Hove wrote:
>
> leo <leo@bella.local> writes:
>
> >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.
>
> Well,
>
> I personally like (dolist) a lot:
>
> (require 'cl)
With current GNU Emacs 21 you do not need require 'cl because `dolist' and
`dotimes' are now builtin functions of Emacs.
Another way is using `mapc' which walks through a list too.
Do not know which one is preferable - maybe some Lisp-Gurus can answer this...
Klaus
> (dolist (el list)
> ;; do something with el
> (let ((buffer (car el))
> (alist (cdr el)))
> ;;
> ;; But then ...
> ;;
> ))
>
> I dont understand what you mean with 'contained alist' - but you might
> need the assoc function.
>
>
> HTH - Joakim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-13 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-13 13:45 elisp question: how to walk through a variable like special-display-buffer-names leo
2004-01-13 15:07 ` Joakim Hove
2004-01-13 15:30 ` Klaus Berndl [this message]
2004-01-13 23:58 ` leo
2004-01-14 5:23 ` Martin Rydstr|m
2004-01-13 15:42 ` Jesper Harder
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