"jronald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why use auto-mode-alist, but not auto-mode-list?
Because it's an association-list, not just an ordinary list.
Elements of association-lists are cons-pairs, e.g (a . b), and we
can use the assoc function to find matches:
(assoc "potato"
'(("apple" . "fruit") ("potato" . "vegetable") ("icecream" .
"desert")))
evaluates to ("potato" . "vegetable")
Brendan
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