From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Doing something different for the last element of a sequence (partition)? Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 05:10:13 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87ft59egt7.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20413"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 16 12:10:46 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kecPG-0005Bg-MV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:10:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52424 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kecPF-0001YD-Ni for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 06:10:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kecOu-0001Y2-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 06:10:24 -0500 Original-Received: from www458.your-server.de ([136.243.165.62]:59360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kecOs-0001o3-Cg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 06:10:24 -0500 Original-Received: from sslproxy02.your-server.de ([78.47.166.47]) by www458.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92.3) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kecOl-0007R1-Qb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:10:15 +0100 Original-Received: from [172.58.59.90] (helo=localhost) by sslproxy02.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kecOl-000I2P-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:10:15 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ft59egt7.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> X-Authenticated-Sender: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.102.4/25989/Sun Nov 15 14:17:54 2020) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=136.243.165.62; envelope-from=2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com; helo=www458.your-server.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/16 06:10:16 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: 14 X-Spam_score: 1.4 X-Spam_bar: + X-Spam_report: (1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS=3.335, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125281 Archived-At: On 2020-11-16 at 10:28:52 +0000, Tim Landscheidt 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))