From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 18:37:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83h7wys5z8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ljo5d0.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ftcnxu5m.fsf@bernoul.li> <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> <20200429101755.GF24737@tuxteam.de> <838sicw4do.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhaqu89z.fsf@gnu.org> <83sggiu2p9.fsf@gnu.org> <83k11utxn7.fsf@gnu.org> <99e190a0-4f6e-0b93-cd96-b286a70356c1@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="55252"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 17:38:24 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1jUuDg-000EIw-Gs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 17:38:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51682 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuDf-0001mo-JD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58786) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuD9-0000e8-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuD9-0003jx-1P; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:37:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1156 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuCy-0002je-DZ; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:37:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <99e190a0-4f6e-0b93-cd96-b286a70356c1@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 2 May 2020 17:56:16 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248467 Archived-At: > Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 17:56:16 +0300 > > On 02.05.2020 13:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> -- Function: assoc key alist &optional testfn > >> -- Function: rassoc value alist > >> -- Function: assq key alist > >> -- Function: alist-get key alist &optional default remove testfn > >> -- Function: rassq value alist > >> -- Function: assoc-default key alist &optional test default > >> -- Function: copy-alist alist > >> -- Function: assq-delete-all key alist > >> -- Function: assoc-delete-all key alist > >> -- Function: rassq-delete-all value alist > >> > >> That's what I would like to get out of the manual easily. > > I fail to see how will the above list be useful, if you know nothing > > about the function's name. > > The workflow goes like this: > > You type 'C-h f', start typing I said "if you know nothing about the function's name". How do you "start typing" in this situation? Typing what?