Function: seq-take

seq-take is a byte-compiled function defined in seq.el.gz.

Signature

(seq-take SEQUENCE N)

Documentation

Return the sequence made of the first N elements of SEQUENCE.

The result is a sequence of the same type as SEQUENCE.

If N is a negative integer or zero, an empty sequence is returned.

Other relevant functions are documented in the sequence group.

View in manual

Shortdoc

;; sequence
(seq-take '(a b c d e) 3)
    => (a b c)

Aliases

recentf-trunc-list (obsolete since 28.1)

Implementations

(seq-take (LIST list) N) in `seq.el'.

Optimized implementation of `seq-take' for lists.

(seq-take SEQUENCE N) in `seq.el'.

Undocumented

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/seq.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(cl-defgeneric seq-take (sequence n)
  "Return the sequence made of the first N elements of SEQUENCE.
The result is a sequence of the same type as SEQUENCE.

If N is a negative integer or zero, an empty sequence is
returned."
  (seq-subseq sequence 0 (min (max n 0) (seq-length sequence))))