Questions tagged [list]
is for the list object in Lisp programming. A list represents a sequence of zero or more elements. Emacs Lisp relies extensively on the list data structure; it is a fundamental building block. Emacs provides many facilities for building, modifying, extending, and efficiently handling list data structures.
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Map function onto nested list?
Q: how can I map a function onto elements of nested lists?
For flat lists, we can use mapcar to apply a function to each
element of the list:
(setq flat '("kittens" "puppies" "otters" "bunnies"))
(...
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When to use quote for lists? Modifying quoted lists in Elisp
The Common Lisp Hyper Spec says:
The consequences are undefined if literal objects (including quoted objects) are destructively modified.
This is further motivated at the Constant Modification ...
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Evaluating symbol in function arguments affected by destructive operations?
While evaluating a function call, the arguments is from left to right. For example,
(let ((x '(1 2 3)))
(list (nreverse x) x))
;; => ((3 2 1) (1))
The first argument (nreverse x) evaluates to (...
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Does `car` on an non-lazy function generated list evals the whole list?
I want to get in a huge directory the first file which satisfies some condition, something like
(require 'seq)
(require 'f)
(defun lazy-filter-file (pred path)
(car (seq-filter pred (f--files path ...
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How to delete all list elements matching a regexp?
Given a list:
(setq mylist '("a1" "a2" "b1" "b2"))
How to delete all elements that match ^a?
What I want is "a1" and "a2" deleted, only left "b1" and "b2" in the list.
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Arbitrary length lists as argument for interactive function
Say I have a defun with a dolist inside that I want to be able to pass a string that is then converted to a list with a length equal to the number of words in said string via the minibuffer, so ...
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Comparing `system-configuration-options` to a user-specified list
In this example, the system-configuration-options is a string:
"--prefix=/Users/HOME/.0.data/.0.emacs/.0.x11 --with-x --with-ns=no --enable-checking=yes,glyphs --enable-check-lisp-object-type --...
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Directed Acyclic Graphs in Emacs Lisp
Emacs Lisp has support for lists (naturally), association lists, and property lists, vectors, and hash tables. Does it have support for directed acyclic graphs (DAGs)?
I have not found a DAG API in ...
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Updating `dired-directory` after renaming a file
Q: I have a list of strings: '("apple" "pear" "peach" "nectarine" "watermelon"). How can I replace "peach" with "plum" and maintain the same order of fruits? [CAVEAT: The list may be very long ...
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Replacing autoref command format specification in auctex's font-latex-match-reference-keywords-local
With some help I have redefined the autoref command to take an optional argument, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/428229/autoref-with-optional-argument-text-in-generated-link
Now I am ...
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How to mapcar uneven lists?
I am aware I can use mapcar to join 2 lists into pairs, however all the map functions seem to quit at the shortest list.
This for example
(cl-mapcar #'concat '("1" "2" "3" "4") '("a" "b" "c"))
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Sort list by decreasing length of the strings
I have this list:
(setq MYLIST '("J. Phys."
"New. J. Phys."
"J. Phys. Soc. Jap."
"Phys. Plasmas"))
How can I get a new list ordered by the decreasing ...
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Adding many items to a list
What is the proper way to add many items to a list? I assume just using many add-to-lists is not the normal way?
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cons a symbol with a variable and return as a symbol
How can I make fun2 return as the same as fun1?
(defun fun1 ()
'((hello . "test"))) ; <= returns ((hello . "test"))
(defun fun2 (str)
'((hello . str))) ; <= this is wrong! should return ((...
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How to define a bundle of variable-and-function pairs?
I want to define a bundle of variable-and-function pairs, e.g.: vl/path-doc points to my often used path, and vl/open-path-doc is used for open it in dired-mode.
I tried this piece of code:
(setq ...
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`smart-parens`: How can I check if a matching delimiter exists before inserting another one?
Good afternoon fellow Emacs users,
I have a question regarding the smart-parens package. Currently, I use smartparens-mode to automatically insert matching braces/parentheses/brackets. It works as ...
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How do I rotate list elements?
Q: how do I rotate the elements of a list such that last becomes first?
Given a list of arbitrary length, how do I rotate the list
non-destructively such that the last element becomes the first
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How to pop an arbitrary element from a list?
Q: how do I pop an arbitrary element from a list?
Given the list '(a b c d e), pop returns a and destructively
modifies the list to '(b c d e). How can I generalize this
function so I could pop an ...
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Doubly-linked list package
Are there any good packages for Emacs that implement doubly-linked lists? I know I could make them myself, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
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How can I convert a list of integers to a string?
Let's say I have a list of integers, representing year, month, day for a date:
(2017 8 21)
and I want to format the list in one function call, as in
(format "%04d-%02d-%02d" 2017 8 21)
Is there an ...
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How to sort an association list (alist)?
Is there a way to sort an association list? In my case I would like to sort the alist elements by the values in each list element (represented by the integers in the example below).
Example:
(setq ...
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How to create and traverse a multidimensional list
I have code like this:
(let* ((l1 '(1 2 3))
(l2 '(4 5 6))
(l3 '(7 8 9))
(ml '(l1 l2 l3)))
(dolist (l ml)
(message "%s" l)
(dolist (e l)
(message "%s" e))))
But ...
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How to get the value of :ID: property of a org-contacts-entry in an org-capture-template?
Problem
I want to get the value of a property of a org-contacts-db entry:
\* Example Contact :MYTAG:
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: foobar
:END:
With the function call (org-contacts-filter "Example ...
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Why is the . needed for adding suffixes to the 'auto-mode-alist?
In
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoModeAlist
one needs to use this command in order to add .py for python-mode (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.py\\'" . python-mode))
Why do we need the . ...
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how to specify an infinite list in lisp?
How to specify a list, which's last element is referring to the first element?
By specify I mean, for example, how to write a setq statement with this list.
I have seen this in the documentation, ...
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How to enable type-check rules with flycheck-tslint
I want flycheck to use the tslint's --type-check flag to compile my typescript files. In order to see unused imports on the fly inside emacs.
By tslint docs
--type-check
Enables the type ...
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How to concatenate two lists?
Sorry, but elisp is not my best.
I need to combine two lists of strings in this way:
("a" "b" "c") + ("d" "e" "f") -> ("a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f")
Well, the order is not important, so I wrote this ...
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Custom function to map through nested lists sorting by time-stamp
In the following example, please assume that we are using time-to-seconds to convert each times-stamp into a decimal representation. I have already converted the time-stamps to seconds in this ...
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Structure-preserving copying of sequences
The form (cl-copy-tree TREE t) returns a deep-copy of a sequence TREE.
The the Common Lisp Hyper Spec explains that copy-tree does not preserve circularities and sharing of substructures. I.e., even ...
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Add to a list that defcustom has not yet defined
We can avoid adding duplicate elements to a list variable by using add-to-list.
When setting a customizable variable (i.e. one that is or will be defined by defcustom) from our init file, we're ...
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Report duplicates in a list?
Q: how do I get only the duplicate elements in a list?
delete-dups (and cl-delete-duplicates) deletes all duplicate
elements from a list:
(delete-dups '(a b c c d d)) ; => '(a b c d)
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Compare all elements of 2 lists, not necessarily in same order
Q: How to test whether all elements of two lists are the same even though the order may be different?
EXAMPLE: (test-fn '(answered cached unread) '(unread answered cached)) => t
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Building a list of strings with a regexp while loop
I'd like to perform a regexp search, capture part of a matched string, and save
that part to a list. (Eventually the plan is to save this list to a file in a
particular format, but for now a simple ...
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Sort list by checked/unchecked state
I was wondering if org-mode offers a function to sort a list by the item states? So that checked items appear on top and unchecked items at the bottom? For example with this list
- [ ] Not yet done
- ...
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Automatically create checkbox in new line
When creating a list in org-mode, one can press M-RET to create a new line which already has a list item of the same indentation as the line above it in it.
How can one achieve the same thing but ...
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add-to-list vs add-hook?
What is the difference between add-to-list vs add-hook?
For example I see in progmodes/make-mode.el:
(add-hook 'completion-at-point-functions
#'makefile-completions-at-point nil t)
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How to remove / delete nth element of a list
Q: How to remove / delete nth element of a list.
CAVEAT: Do not remove all occurrences / members matching nth element -- e.g., eq or equal.
EXAMPLE: Remove the 17th element of:
'(a b c d e f g h ...
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Does `mapc` place a symbol on the active element of the sequence?
I understand that (eq '(3 . d) '(3 . d)) returns nil, and (eq 3 3) returns t. But I do not understand why delq is deleting one (3 . d) in the second example each loop when y is (3 . d). Is mapc ...
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List manipulation — appending duplicate equal lists
START WITH:
(let ((my-list '((12 1 2016)
(12 2 2016)
(12 3 2016)
(12 1 2016)
(12 4 2016)
(12 5 2016)
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Mapping a function over `frame-list` to get a list of the `top` frame-parameter values
I'd like to make a list of parameters of each frame such as the top coordinate, left coordinate, and name to achieve what I asked in my previous question. I'm trying to follow the advice I got there ...
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Problems with setting the default font
I'm trying to set the default font for my Emacs based on a variable (so I can use a different font on a different machine):
(setq fontspec (concat ck-font-name "-" (number-to-string ck-font-size)))
(...
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Why does the member function return a list's tail rather than t?
Why does Elisp (member '3 '(1 2 3 4 5 6)) return (3 4 5 6) instead of t (true) or 3, or (3)?
I see the utility of a function to return the remainder/tail of an ordered list starting from, and ...
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How to use text-properties in a lambda function
I wish to map the text properties onto a list and them insert them on a new buffer. For some reason the following snippet doesn't work. I've used the -map utility from dash.el package for the map.
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How to check if a given string is a substring of an element of a list
According to documentation, member checks if a a given element is an element of a list. For example if the list, say my_list consists of apple and orange, (member "apple" my_list) returns true.
Is ...
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Meaning of period in (. 123)
I learnt . /path/to/file in bash is used to execute a file. Just out of curiosity, I eval something like the following in Emacs
(. 123)
⇒ 123
(read "(. 123)")
⇒ 123
It looks like Emacs ...
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How to merge two buffers containing questions and answers
In my line of work, I often have one document containing questions and another document containing answers. How can I merge these documents in the form of Question/Answer.
BUFFER #1:
Q1: Do you ...
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Convert 2-item list to a dotted pair?
Q: how can I convert a 2-item list to a dotted pair cons cell?
I can convert a 2-item list to a dotted pair with:
(let ((list '(1 2)))
(cons (car list) (cadr list))) ; => (1 . 2)
I'm ...
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Test whether all elements/symbols of a list are the same (eq)
Project:
(1) Push every new this-command onto a list containing any previously pushed this-command.
(2) Limit the list to a variable length (e.g., 3 or 5), and chop off the oldest.
(3) Compare ...
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Org Mode - Is there a way to reverse org-list-make-subtree?
By using org-list-make-subtree (C-c C-*) you turn an Org List into a sub tree:
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
would turn into
* Item 1
** Item 2
*** Item 3
But is there a built in function (like ...
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How to remove MELPA repository from package-archives?
I added MELPA stable and MELPA repositories with
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa....
