[Orgmode] Re: elisp code takes CPU too much

[Jambunathan K]

> hi. I have wrote an elisp code for org-mode, which puts entries in a
> table.  It is a simple code in my opinion and it does the job I
> intended. But when executed, the activation of CPU shoots up and it
> will take a while to complete it.  I do not believe that this little
> code requires such a work-load for the computer.  There must be my
> wrong-doing.

You have an infinite loop. The predicate of the while loop would always
evaluate to 'true' and never become 'false'.

> Could anyone help me for fixing it?

Try the following snippet with suitable variations.

(setq word-list (list "apple" "orange" "lemon" "baseball" "football"))

(defun test-table (word-list) 
  (let ((line 0) (column 3))
    (mapcar (lambda (word)
              (org-table-put i column word t))
            word-list)))

Jambunathan K.


>
> soichi 
>
>
>
> P.S. the code follows, and there is "word" in the table so that "search" 
> command
> looks for it.
>
> ;;---------------------------------------------
>
> (require 'org-table)
>
> (setq alist (list "apple" "orange" "lemon" "baseball" "football"))
>
> (defun test-table (word-list)
>
>   "test to see if org-table-put works well"
>
>   (find-file-noselect (concat "~/Dropbox/language/word.org"))
>
>   (set-buffer "word.org")
>
>   (save-excursion
>
>     (goto-char (point-min))
>
>     (search-forward "word")
>
>     (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
>
>     (let ((i 1))
>
>       (while word-list
>
> (org-table-put i 3 (nth (- i 1) word-list) t)
>
> (setq i (1+ i))))))
>
>       
>
> (test-table alist) ;;execute it here
>
>
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