From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I'd like to marry while and mapcar...
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:53:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761bf9men.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhkbdvqc.fsf@gmx.us>
On 2015-02-06, at 14:18, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
>
>> Hello Emacsers and Elispers!
>>
>> What I'd need is kind of a marriage of while and mapcar: I'd like to run
>> some function until it returns nil and make a list of all results it
>> gives back until then.
>>
>> Mu use case is that I'm getting some info from a LaTeX file. For
>> instance, assume that I want to make a list of all files \include'd by
>> a LaTeX document. I've written a function `get-TeX-macro-arguments'
>> which finds the next occurence of a given TeX command, moves point past
>> it and returns its arguments; if it does not find any such occurrence,
>> it returns nil. So I can say something like this:
>>
>> (let (current-include (list-of-includes ()))
>> (while (setq current-include (get-TeX-macro-arguments "include"))
>> (setq list-of-includes (append list-of-includes current-include)))
>> list-of-includes)
>
> How about:
>
> (cl-loop while (search-forward-regexp
> "^[ \t]*\\\\include{\\([^}]+\\)}[ \t]*$" nil t)
> collect (match-string 1))
>
> –Rasmus
Thanks, this is a nice idea, even though some might tsk-tsk the use of
cl-loop.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-06 12:56 I'd like to marry while and mapcar Marcin Borkowski
2015-02-06 13:18 ` Rasmus
2015-02-06 13:53 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-02-06 14:14 ` Rasmus
2015-02-06 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-06 13:50 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-02-06 13:44 ` Doug Lewan
[not found] ` <mailman.19396.1423229779.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-06 16:25 ` Barry Margolin
2015-02-06 16:52 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-02-06 22:49 ` Drew Adams
2015-02-07 21:09 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-02-07 23:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.19494.1423352465.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-08 0:28 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] <mailman.19392.1423227427.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-06 14:13 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-02-06 14:54 ` Joost Kremers
2015-02-06 17:47 ` Joost Kremers
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