bug#47454: plist-put should have a version which accepts multiple properties

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

scame <laszlomail@protonmail.com> writes:

> Modifying plists could be much easier if multiple properties
> were also accepted.
>
> E.g. (plist-put PLIST PROP VAL ... )
>
> or (plist-put PLIST (PROP VAL ....) )
>
> Others also find this problematic:
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/39473/how-to-modify-multiple-keys-in-a-plist
>
> and the suggessted solutions are clumsy:
>
>   (setq org-format-latex-options (plist-put org-format-latex-options :scale 
> 1.5))
>   (setq org-format-latex-options (plist-put org-format-latex-options 
> :foreground 'auto))

Well...  pretty much any key/value storage function works like this --
for instance, you can't put more than one key/value into a hash table
with puthash.  puthash does have the advantage that you don't have to
setq the variable, so it's somewhat less verbose.

(setf (seq-elt plist ...))

may help with that, though.

In any case, I don't think extending plist-put (or adding a new function
to take a list would be that useful, so I'm closing this bug report.

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