From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looping lists through mapcar Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:54:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgfuyniw.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10933"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:p+4msDuJ6yOqPfjLzOfYJ19UF0I= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 13:59:52 2022 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 1oQp32-0002aV-Bl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44264 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQp30-0003LS-P9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 07:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45626) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQn6A-0007A5-Tf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 05:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:51024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQn69-0003io-65 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 05:54:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oQn65-0007AZ-TN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:54:53 +0200 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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:139040 Archived-At: uzibalqa wrote: >> I cannot understand. Provide exactly what you mean. > > Here is what I mean. When I have many alists > (`andromeda-assoc-table-N' where `N' is a numeric value with > say `N' being from 1 to 57), I want to avoid having to write > them all down inside the function `andromeda-translate'. > > (defvar nscrip '()) > > (defconst andromeda-assoc-table-1 > '( ("OrycteropusAfer" . "Aardvark") > ("VicugnaPacos" . "Alpaca") > ("MyrmecophagaTridactyla" . "Anteater") )) > > (defconst andromeda-assoc-table-2 > '( ("Dasypodidae" . "Armadillo") > ("TaxideaTaxus" . "Badger") > ("Beaver" . "Beaver") )) > > (defconst andromeda-assoc-table-3 > '( ("LynxRufus" . "Bobcat") > ("LepomisMacrochirus" . "Bluegill") > ("RangiferTarandus" . "Caribou") )) > > (defun andromeda-translate () > "Shorten word at point according to specific rules." > > (interactive) > > (let* ( (bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'word)) > (word (downcase (buffer-substring (car bounds) (cdr bounds)))) > (rplc "") ) > > (goto-char (car bounds)) > (add-to-list 'nscrip word) > > (dolist (aggr (list andromeda-assoc-table-1 > andromeda-assoc-table-2 > andromeda-assoc-table-3)) > (setq rplc (cdr (assoc word aggr))) > (unless (null rplc) > (add-to-list 'nscrip > (replace-regexp-in-string word rplc word)))) )) Unheard of :) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal