Re: mutate list by appending a list (and similar for props)

[Sam Halliday]

On Thursday, 18 September 2014 10:37:52 UTC+1, Sam Halliday  wrote:
> On Monday, 8 September 2014 20:29:17 UTC+1, Barry Margolin  wrote:
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> >  Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I often find that I am repeating calls to add-to-list (mutates) / 
> > > plist-put 
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> > > (immutable) in my .emacs [1] configuration against the same variable. I'd 
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> > > like to be able to pass a list of elements to be appended/prepended to 
> > > the 
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> > > variable to save on boilerplate.
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> > > It would be trivial to write a little function that repeats the operation 
> > > for 
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> > > a list input, but I'd rather use something that is already in the emacs 
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> > > distro (or at least in a very lightweight MELPA package).
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> > > Does such a thing exist?
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> > The append function does it:
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> > (setq list (append additional-list list))
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> Thanks! But that's not ideal because it involves repeating the list symbol 
> (which can often be quite long).

(It also doesn't work when the original list is nil)