From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LanX Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extract sublists Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:01:55 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258469024 11993 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 14:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:43:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 15:43:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAPHH-0007cz-64 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:43:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAPHG-0002iq-8h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:43:30 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.97.70.67 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1258466516 22948 127.0.0.1 (17 Nov 2009 14:01:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=188.97.70.67; posting-account=W9fpQwoAAADZYmkl-8sXk1VPxG3rq-Pd User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.14, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174748 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69822 Archived-At: searching for (pop) led me to (butlast) ----------------ielm ELISP> (defun splice (LIST OFFSET LENGTH) (butlast (nthcdr OFFSET LIST) (- (length LIST) LENGTH OFFSET) ) ) splice ELISP> (setq list '(a b c d e f g h i j)) (a b c d e f g h i j) ELISP> (splice list 3 4) (d e f g) ------------------