Re: Print key-value pairs from both plist and alist

On Saturday, April 11th, 2026 at 9:51 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> Heime <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Saturday, April 11th, 2026 at 2:44 AM, Heime <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> I want to print key-value pairs using a function to which I can
> >> pass either a plist or an alist as argument.
> >>
> >> Have seen different constructs to do so, but is there a clause
> >> that will apply for both a plist and an alist?
> >
> > For hash tables I can use maphash to get key-value pairs.  Is there
> > some map equivalent for reading key-value pairs for both plists and
> > alists?
> >
> 
> C-h P map:
> 
>    "map.el provides generic map-manipulation functions that work on
>     alists, plists, hash-tables, and arrays.  All functions are
>     prefixed with "map-"."
> 
> Some of the functions in this library:
> 
> mapp
>   Function: Return non-nil if MAP is a map (alist/plist, hash-table, array,...).
> 
> map-keys
>   Function: Return the list of keys in MAP.
> 
> map-values
>   Function: Return the list of values in MAP.
> 
> map-do
>   Function: Apply FUNCTION to each element of MAP and return nil.

"C-h f map-do" did not give me anything
 
I need to adapt this to plists and alists

            (maphash
               ;; FUNCITON
               (lambda (key value)
                 (let* ( (fkey  (format "%s" key))
                         (fval  (format "%s" value))
			 (sgnl  (if (file-directory-p fval)
                                      (propertize " " 'face lmps)
                                  (propertize " " 'face lmpw)))
                         (pkey  (if (file-directory-p fval)
                                      (propertize fkey 'face gjsf)
                                  (propertize fkey 'face gjwf))) )
                   (insert (format fmt-str sgnl pkey fval))))
              ;; TABLE
              datenstruk)





> map-elt
>   Function: Look up KEY in MAP and return its associated value.
> 
> These functions appear not to be documented in an ‘info’
> manual so you should use C-h f to read their docstrings.
> 
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