From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans BKK Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Generating a listing of all symbols (16K+) and labeling subsets Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <38d1beb3-fffd-4718-ae10-be9646ac4a63@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397847928 1043 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2014 19:05:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:05:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 18 21:05:22 2014 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 1WbE6B-0002io-P3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:05:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbE6B-0003WE-9w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:05:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.52.28.116 with SMTP id a20mr7883305vdh.2.1397847694260; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:01:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.241.70 with SMTP id wg6mr217975obc.19.1397847694063; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:01:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!cm18no4104636qab.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni545igc.0!nntp.google.com!l13no8353152iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <38d1beb3-fffd-4718-ae10-be9646ac4a63@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2602:306:334f:a5e0:34d6:6f1d:10e2:9ffb; posting-account=IUdGewoAAACF9WtA3i8stuVyXNk2FqaH Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2602:306:334f:a5e0:34d6:6f1d:10e2:9ffb User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:01:34 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204940 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:97205 Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Nicolas Richard > Some symbols are just symbols. every time the lisp reader reads > something, symbols are interned. > > Currently I have 76920 symbols in obarray. Aha. OK, so those "just symbols" can go to dev null. Question remains - how to separate out and ID - in the absence of a predicate - any that actually may be of interest remaining in my current "other" - which I presume macros should be, and having got code for keymaps already above. Any other function types? Or out of those that are neither fboundp nor boundp? > If you want to have a report of useful symbols used in a package you can > do e.g. for smerge-mode: > M-x apropos RET ^smerge- RET Thanks for that, looks useful. But looks to only pick up those starting with the package string? And I think apropos only displays a limited subset, e.g. only Customized variables? and/or only those with docstrings? In this context I'm aiming more for an all-in-one standard "state report" I can diff between any arbitrary emacs-config-A and emacs-config-B, showing all changes, including to existing system variables.