From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: best way to get the list of unique keys from 2 alists
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:20:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vexmo2kf.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.19635.1134911223.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> I've got 2 alists of (SYMBOL . "STRING") pairs, and I need to get the
> list of unique symbol names to pass to completing-read as its TABLE
> argument: (("SYMBOL-NAME") ...)
I'd just do:
(completing-read "foo" (mapcar (lambda (x) (symbol-name (car x)))
(append list1 list2)))
You don't need to remove duplicates.
Stefan
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2005-12-18 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-12-19 18:50 ` best way to get the list of unique keys from 2 alists Kevin Rodgers
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2005-12-20 3:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-16 17:47 Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-17 0:13 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-17 0:36 ` Kevin Rodgers
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