From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Appending to a list Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 02:38:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87czzbj1an.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <877dpljtwg.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87sg89v1f7.fsf@telefonica.net> <87mtyhxovn.fsf@zoho.eu> <871rftxlwl.fsf@zoho.eu> <87czzdyqra.fsf@web.de> <87r1ns5mlf.fsf@web.de> <87wnxkmeig.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14110"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vc2cv1UcSNngLgioGgYxDK8/YyY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 15 02:39:50 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1kozJe-0003Y3-Dx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2020 02:39:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46420 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kozJd-0005j4-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kozIx-0005iw-3g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:35516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kozIu-0003zH-Af for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:39:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kozIs-0002cj-3P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2020 02:39:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126384 Archived-At: steve-humphreys wrote: > I got greedy. Greedy algorithm: at every step of the way, choose the most rewarding next step. Usually works well but without the big picture it can lead to dead ends. But a good bet if you don't know what else to do. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal