Re: How to break out of an emacs lisp loop ?

[thermate]

On Oct 23, 11:29 am, gnuist...@gmail.com wrote:
> (while (not (forward-char))
>     (if (looking-at "a") break )
>
> When I run this sexp, I get error at break. So break is wrong syntax.
> But this is the way many C loops are written.
>
> while ((c=(getchar()) != EOF){ if (c=='a') break; }

Here is a one/two liner that exactly does what you want with the same
functions that you have and without any break and is actually readable
like an english sentence

(while (not (looking-at "a" ))
  (forward-char))

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