From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Basile Starynkevitch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Declaring a list as a global variable Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 10:08:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34971"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cc: uzibalqa@proton.me To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 04 10:08:55 2023 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 1q5inG-0008qP-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 10:08:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5in5-0004wP-RY; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 04:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5in1-0004pv-4a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 04:08:40 -0400 Original-Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:dc4:8::223]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q5imy-0007Wv-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2023 04:08:38 -0400 X-GND-Sasl: basile@starynkevitch.net X-GND-Sasl: basile@starynkevitch.net Original-Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8339860002; Sun, 4 Jun 2023 08:08:33 +0000 (UTC) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:4b98:dc4:8::223; envelope-from=basile@starynkevitch.net; helo=relay3-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -26 X-Spam_score: -2.7 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.095, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143848 Archived-At: On 6/4/23 10:04, uzibalqa wrote: > I am adding elements to a list inside a function but how would I declare the list as a global variable > initially ? > > > You would probably use the defvar special form. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Defining-Variables.html BTW, my pet open source project is the RefPerSys inference engine on http://refpersys.org/ and code on https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ and contributors are welcome. Regards from near Paris in France -- Basile Starynkevitch (only mine opinions / les opinions sont miennes uniquement) 92340 Bourg-la-Reine, France web page: starynkevitch.net/Basile/