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Re: elisp question: how to walk through a variable like special-display-
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Klaus Berndl |
Subject: |
Re: elisp question: how to walk through a variable like special-display-buffer-names |
Date: |
13 Jan 2004 16:30:10 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Joakim Hove wrote:
>
> leo <leo@bella.local> writes:
>
> >i want to walk through the list in special-display-buffer-names (and
> >special-display-regexps), in order to find out if the left parameter is
> >set in the contained alist.
>
> Well,
>
> I personally like (dolist) a lot:
>
> (require 'cl)
With current GNU Emacs 21 you do not need require 'cl because `dolist' and
`dotimes' are now builtin functions of Emacs.
Another way is using `mapc' which walks through a list too.
Do not know which one is preferable - maybe some Lisp-Gurus can answer this...
Klaus
> (dolist (el list)
> ;; do something with el
> (let ((buffer (car el))
> (alist (cdr el)))
> ;;
> ;; But then ...
> ;;
> ))
>
> I dont understand what you mean with 'contained alist' - but you might
> need the assoc function.
>
>
> HTH - Joakim
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