From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Doing something different for the last element of a sequence (partition)?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 05:10:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X7JeFVHX7mFLgdKb@scrozzle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ft59egt7.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de>
On 2020-11-16 at 10:28:52 +0000,
Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a list of URLs (all-urls) and I want to launch a
> Firefox window for the first x URLs, then wait y seconds,
> then launch another one, etc., and then prompt the user if
> the source of URLs can be deleted (provided that everything
> went smoothly).
>
> If I do:
>
> | (seq-doseq (firefox-urls (seq-partition (seq-sort all-urls #'string<) x))
> | (apply 'call-process "firefox" nil "*firefox*" nil firefox-urls)
> | (sleep-for y))
>
> that works fine, except that it also waits for y seconds af-
> ter the last launch.
Or handle the first one as the special case (completely untested):
(cl-do (((firefox-urls (seq-partition (seq-sort all-urls #'string<) x))
(delay 0 y)))
(sleep-for delay)
(apply 'call-process "firefox" nil "*firefox*" nil firefox-urls))
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2020-11-16 10:28 Doing something different for the last element of a sequence (partition)? Tim Landscheidt
2020-11-16 11:10 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE [this message]
2020-11-16 11:40 ` Tim Landscheidt
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