From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Kevin Rodgers'" <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>, <9959@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#9959: 24.0.90; `count-words' command from a narrowed buffer
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:01:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <650AF62C3EAD4BD288F25EF97505DE69@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09E90207C2FB4EBAA78235DA57686D17@us.oracle.com>
> > If I've narrowed a very large buffer to a small region, I am
> > not interested in the counts for the entire buffer nor
> > willing to wait for them.
>
> Yes, that's the cost of such combining.
>
> Possible solutions include (a) adding separate commands for
> individual pieces of
> the combination and (b) finding a way (e.g. prefix arg) to
> specify interactively
> to this command that you want only one or two pieces of info,
> not everything.
Another possibility: Do as we do with `apropos' commands. We have both a prefix
arg and a user option, `apropos-do-all', that affect the behavior, with the less
complete, and faster, behavior as the default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-05 10:28 bug#9959: 24.0.90; `count-words' command from a narrowed buffer Dani Moncayo
2011-11-06 15:01 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-06 15:34 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-06 16:30 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-06 17:30 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-09 4:39 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-11-09 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-09 16:01 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-11-09 16:36 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-09 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2012-07-18 14:32 ` Chong Yidong
2022-02-13 9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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