From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@coextrix.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, ishi soichi <soichi777@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: elisp code takes CPU too much
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:51:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aajpotbf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81vd2fzd1l.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:40:46 +0530")
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@coextrix.com> writes:
>> hi. I have wrote an elisp code for org-mode, which puts entries in a
>> table. It is a simple code in my opinion and it does the job I
>> intended. But when executed, the activation of CPU shoots up and it
>> will take a while to complete it. I do not believe that this little
>> code requires such a work-load for the computer. There must be my
>> wrong-doing.
>
> You have an infinite loop. The predicate of the while loop would always
> evaluate to 'true' and never become 'false'.
>
>> Could anyone help me for fixing it?
>
> Try the following snippet with suitable variations.
>
> (setq word-list (list "apple" "orange" "lemon" "baseball" "football"))
>
> (defun test-table (word-list)
> (let ((line 0) (column 3))
> (mapcar (lambda (word)
> (org-table-put i column word t))
> word-list)))
Unless you're going to do something with the list returned by this
function (seems unlikely given that `org-table-put' doesn't seem to
return anything useful), you should use `mapc' or `dolist' instead of
`mapcar'.
Štěpán
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-29 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-27 5:47 elisp code takes CPU too much ishi soichi
2010-12-27 11:10 ` Jambunathan K
2010-12-29 8:51 ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2010-12-27 14:17 ` Eric Schulte
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