On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 01:33:08PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:17:55 +0200
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> > 
> > > > * https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Association-Lists.html sometimes assoc,
> > > >  alist-get, assq, copy-alist. How am I supposed to use `C-h f alist TAB` to discover the function I want? I
> > > >  can't, I have to go to that webpage and read it all.
> > > 
> > > I think "C-h d alist RET" is your friend.
> > 
> > Yes, but :)
> > 
> > For people with some roots in Lisp culture (I'm one of them,
> > mind you), "alist" is obvious. It's an association list, duh.
> > For newcomers... not so much.
> 
> I was replying to the above, where the issue is that not all of the
> functions' names begin with "alist".  Evidently, this means the
> "alist" obstacle was already overcome.

In the concrete, yes. I still mull over the more general
problem (without having a good idea, unfortunately).

I just wanted to raise some awareness, since it's an
ever-recurring pattern.

Cheers
-- t