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f.el and friends are useful, and add a lot of value. But elisp's function naming is all over the place and that can make it harder than it needs to be to find w
by mickeyp 4y ago
f.el and friends are useful, and add a lot of value. But elisp's function naming is all over the place and that can make it harder than it needs to be to find what you're looking for. That is also why people turn to libraries like f.el.
Emacs 28 adds a builtin Elisp cheat sheet command that collates a lot of Emacs's elisp functions into neat categories along with examples and hyperlinks to the manual. So, if you don't want a third-party library like f, dash, or s, you can give it a try first:
I wrote about it here:
https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/emacs-builtin-elisp-cheat-sheet https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/emacs-builtin-elisp-c...