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Re: [ELPA] New package: transient


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:33:08 +0300

> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:17:55 +0200
> From: <address@hidden>
> 
> > > * 
> > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Association-Lists.html
> > >  sometimes assoc,
> > >  alist-get, assq, copy-alist. How am I supposed to use `C-h f alist TAB` 
> > > to discover the function I want? I
> > >  can't, I have to go to that webpage and read it all.
> > 
> > I think "C-h d alist RET" is your friend.
> 
> Yes, but :)
> 
> For people with some roots in Lisp culture (I'm one of them,
> mind you), "alist" is obvious. It's an association list, duh.
> For newcomers... not so much.

I was replying to the above, where the issue is that not all of the
functions' names begin with "alist".  Evidently, this means the
"alist" obstacle was already overcome.



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