From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34708: alist-get has unclear documentation Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 10:25:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87wolhr5k6.fsf@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="159865"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 34708@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Miguel V. S. 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Frasson's message of "Sat, 2 Mar 2019 01:50:10 -0300") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:MSBl9mIOYqP4GvwDZAqSJ2fPOo7PtsW45QxWX7lN2IzYtQB9s48 k7acMA06aWI9oApwDZpcFT0NpY2s30y5RMBVVzMBwZRH9pWIFI6gimvF4d3Ox7ztqD1WM9c YiRLBAFGLu6LdEFbGf6XMDbW8EeOaYmzEvN9+Phoaqz7hccvRZbggDhsSO0zKhSqIEri3gv KRsI6pWKb6djzSibpv6dQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:ooiphD278FA=:NjnyEh1OurJ4zDpOTnjrwV 5vfuCLkcWLhFQtsHYbXQmv1+VMflAcQiKoU7rrZDeoYJtoNBLzXTQ2zlS8sNA8WxlEN7YG9Lk PiXVkq4FZAzfcwDqKNxL6bLh+o7Al0yW3KP/wzurzFjN4nnetfztsHsTaLeSw8UqEKqZcWk93 ZoKTR+tzgTYv7uwNtOA+uKBeFa4n+mlu4PBudTmT3oqhRT9JcDuhRhnvB6wKiKktkc1EOVtW6 FuonpRCDWUno1XSiVu9jwvE6gC5AxrG1dXl5NEivYZrrZIf4WowHFL+5LyNFSjz2v4k9p/5rm 7x0UJUkp3MrgrZmGnLuyBaTjyLyAbdS7zmCIhKFkIk2eATZX4+8i4tQefpfh9LSmC1rtPqLFt QKAEF7vaU41FEyaCNZv0RGPPEUsrPOrH6G6Z0gwM2HbxQQ5kkWfnt+LSCCFnEEse38D7fzaEQ +lVDlDg8CF49efj5lP1oWK6juONCPCsusLZjSfy3WQPKI4/M9UAnduvDtasE1lRPqNpmx5/CD Pl6ImqEUO1V3SL2fl5geG/mJkxPQH7Yoppy3U9KoYcbUaHRx8nIA7xbJtpFqOMfsgqT6/afOy wxfIHR6reYKssUWK55Rk2ZyxLI9gb5L/lKGxbWoJjb3eJC1ropLXah9T/TMGH9Wy8qFfEwclC fqFDPEw1iKx71H1h2eNtTF9s6X6e1mwfgKZYhcUJp1Z1S2IfBxev86vu97lY9QDWgWizUiE+c 6h+qH3/fwv+NfNaLMNvpd9mIhnqI/LEWvvpLvVp1oQVdFoa2pEuQ7tNPmI9bO9sjEOM7BXdI X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:155947 Archived-At: "Miguel V. S. Frasson" writes: > * Last paragraph starts with `This'. What is `this'? ALIST? TESTFN? > alist-get itself? Only one of those makes sense to me. Do you know what a generalized variable is? > * How do I use `this' or `it' to set a value? Function is alist-*get* > but somehow I can set values. A simple example on doc-string and/or > info node would explain everything. That could make sense, since it's an important use case and generalized variables are probably not something everyone is used to. > * Action of REMOVE is described, but it doesn't correspond to code. > REMOVE is ignored. That's ok: the generalized variable is implemented in gv.el. Michael.