From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Understanding dotimes skipping by 2 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:59:42 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20180927235942.GC2161@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <84a7o28rd8.fsf@gmail.com> <87o9ciil8c.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538092695 4402 195.159.176.226 (27 Sep 2018 23:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:58:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 28 01:58:11 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g5gAZ-000103-OO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 01:58:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5gCg-0002gF-4A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:00:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5gCD-0002g5-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:59:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5gCA-0007eU-KX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:35558) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5gCA-0007cr-8u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: by linus (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EDC3C240039; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:59:42 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87o9ciil8c.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118042 Archived-At: * Eric Abrahamsen [180927 15:28]: > Marco Wahl writes: <...> > > > It's in the documentation (C-h f dotimes). > > To add to that -- if you want to consume a loop two elements at a time, > you'd be better off using `cl-loop' and its "by" keyword. > Thanks: wasn't aware of the cl library... -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com