[Orgmode] Re: elisp code takes CPU too much

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Jambunathan K <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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)))

Unless you're going to do something with the list returned by this
function (seems unlikely given that `org-table-put' doesn't seem to
return anything useful), you should use `mapc' or `dolist' instead of
`mapcar'.

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