The test for presence of ELEMENT is done with `equal'.
The resulting list is reordered so that the elements are in the
-order given by each element's `list-order' property (a number).
-Elements which are not symbols, and symbol elements without a
-numeric `lisp-order' property are placed at the end of the list.
+order given by each element's numeric list order. Elements which
+are not symbols, and symbol elements without a numeric list order
+are placed at the end of the list.
If the third optional argument ORDER is non-nil and ELEMENT is
-a symbol, set the symbol's `list-order' property to the given value.
+a symbol, set the symbol's list order to the given value.
+
+The list order for each symbol is stored in LIST-VAR's
+`list-order' property.
The return value is the new value of LIST-VAR."
- (when (and order (symbolp element))
- (put element 'list-order (and (numberp order) order)))
- (add-to-list list-var element)
- (set list-var (sort (symbol-value list-var)
- (lambda (a b)
- (let ((oa (and (symbolp a) (get a 'list-order)))
- (ob (and (symbolp b) (get b 'list-order))))
- (cond
- ((not oa) nil)
- ((not ob) t)
- (t (< oa ob))))))))
+ (let* ((ordering (get list-var 'list-order))
+ (cur (and (symbolp element) (assq element ordering))))
+ (when order
+ (unless (symbolp element)
+ (error "cannot specify order for non-symbols"))
+ (if cur
+ (setcdr cur order)
+ (setq cur (cons element order))
+ (setq ordering (cons cur ordering))
+ (put list-var 'list-order ordering)))
+ (add-to-list list-var element)
+ (set list-var (sort (symbol-value list-var)
+ (lambda (a b)
+ (let ((oa (and (symbolp a) (assq a ordering)))
+ (ob (and (symbolp b) (assq b ordering))))
+ (cond
+ ((not oa) nil)
+ ((not ob) t)
+ (t (< (cdr oa) (cdr ob))))))))))
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