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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:260405 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > add-to-list is oriented at modifying a variable symbol which need not> be constant. You can use it with a quoted symbol, of course. [etc.] I will point out more concisely, in case my other message got (perhaps rightfully) skipped, that I split off this subthread attempting to better describe to Arthur why his new idea for the documentation was poorly founded, and preempt certain other related ideas. My rhetorical question, intended to help explain why add-to-list exists and is _not_ simply replaced with other list manipulation forms (in a way which I imagined might confuse an elisp novice), was then quoted out of context by itself to make it look like I was proposing to do that replacement. (I believe this was accidental.) I was _not_ making such a proposal, and I gave a longer list of potential reasons why not in the other message. Since this has become more than cluttered enough already, this is the last thing I will post on this topic unless personally asked. -RTT