Re: looping over characters in a string in elisp?

[Ian Zimmerman]

>> (while char in string (do stuff) )

Kai> Why does it have to be a while loop?  Why is a map-like look not
Kai> enough?

Kai> (mapcar (lambda (c) (char-to-string c)) "foobar")

Kai> This calls the lambda expression on each character and collects
Kai> the results in a list.  You can throw the result away if you
Kai> don't like it...

I can remember the time(s) when I had forgotten enough about Emacs
Lisp that I wanted to ask this question.  I always checked myself in
time and found the answer, but I think this is (a little bit of)
evidence that TFM needs a simple improvement.

Just put "STRINGS ARE ARRAYS" in big fat font at the beginning of the
Strings section (which precedes the Sequences Arrays Vectors section).

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I have problem with using vm to fetch mail from POP server. It worked for a 
time being but now it does not fetch mails from the server after I setup 
smtpmail for sending email. Sending with smtpmail.el seems to working properly. 
 

Can you give me a help? 

I think, if you can send me a working custom.el, inti.el, .gnus, .vm, etc, it 
will be better and faster.

It it is necessary 

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