From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: plists, alists, and hashtables Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:15:50 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87vbcsrud5.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <876150vwaa.fsf@mbork.pl> <873803x5q4.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87a8u7we9s.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <877fp8t9ru.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438896022 29172 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2015 21:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 21:20:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 06 23:20:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNSaL-0007xC-4l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:20:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46752 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNSaK-0007bL-FM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:20:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net pjLo3X+xG+llIUAHyZ3Jzq4U2Mxdy/LyVHjcNP7H8Q+zWkONDVgB0totblWSqJ6m2ZyjIGGmJ17zOY4V6PtANg== Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 21:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="L04DdMVI8GqaFVIBtk91PIsji9hfrLFGTR2NCTHzmhHq/lhPYOYUd1OjlDUX/wJ85KQ3SilAWqrPvnlAB1lAaOPvM5kDAI1yyO9BJzA2L4Nlbzep/bLLJLaWHmR+uXfY"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:QTakSfjBakIc+rg2yl50BY0GPjg= sha1:N600f/G7cNQGsiyZSZMqb4qhOgI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214019 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106304 Archived-At: On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 14:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Drew Adams wrote: >> The second part of my question was whether Customize support for >> hashtables would make them more approachable and useful. DA> So the argument is that Customize is more user friendly for a DA> programmer than are the Lisp hashtable functions? I'm surprised. ;-) I mean that packages would have hashtable variables and let end users Customize them directly, like they can Customize the `alist' and `plist' types currently. Ted