From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: return first element in list with certain property Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 03:18:26 +0100 Message-ID: <86wp2kwf0t.fsf@zoho.com> References: <8660a60zjn.fsf@zoho.com> <87mv3gzndx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <86ine4y7jy.fsf@zoho.com> <874lpozk0y.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <8660a4xuou.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511230754 4384 195.159.176.226 (21 Nov 2017 02:19:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 02:19:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 21 03:19:09 2017 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 1eGy9Q-0000Rv-6N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 03:19:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGy9X-0001eN-40 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGy95-0001eF-3n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGy91-0001kR-4h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:18:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56217 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGy90-0001k5-TF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:18:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGy8n-0006cH-NZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 03:18:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:bNMQ+W4LJ6d+Im3m7FUlLEYdc4I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:115023 Archived-At: YT wrote: > It doesn't have to be a problem, it is > bizarre as it is. Thanks for mentioning it, > I'll change to `seq-find'. Not so fast. O K A Y ... I t s e e m s `seq-find' i s n o t i n E m a c s b u t i n seq-24.el . However CL is, so shockingly, this is the best by far - worst-case n, and with all the fixings available from the get-go! (cl-dolist (e test-list) (when (> e 1) (cl-return e) )) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573