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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:58:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E908F40.3080905@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zkhc4j36.fsf@stupidchicken.com>

Am 07.10.2011 22:55, schrieb Chong Yidong:
> Chong Yidong<cyd@stupidchicken.com>  writes:
[ ... ]   use-region-p, it counts in the region.  This is like ispell-word.
>
> And I guess we can call these commands count-words-region and
> count-words, even if they also provide information about lines and
> characters.
>
>

Hi,

think that's definitely the wrong path.

Its very important to express with command-names what they are doing.

If we have a command returning more than one thing, this must be spoken 
out, not done silently.

if you want a combined command, reporting words-lines-chars,

name it that, or give an abbreviation wlc while explaining it for example.

Suggest to avoid unexpected multitudes,

thanks,

Andreas










  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-08 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07 15:41 Rethinking count-words-region Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 16:46 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-08 16:53   ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:00     ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:51   ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 20:55     ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:58       ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2011-10-08 18:11         ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:23           ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:25             ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:29               ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 19:04                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-08 19:28                 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 18:40             ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08  6:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 16:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:51   ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 20:04   ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:46     ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 21:09       ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:49     ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 21:12       ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 21:33         ` Drew Adams
2011-10-09  0:57           ` chad
2011-10-09  1:05             ` Drew Adams

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