From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `string-words'
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:29:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86msmjie0d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877cdneecv.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:35:44 +0200)
> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:35:44 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > We have count-words.
>
> Ah, no, this is about getting a list of words, so you can do
> stuff with them.
In Emacs we prefer to "do stuff" on text directly in the buffer,
instead of first extracting the text as strings and then working with
those strings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-15 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-14 18:09 `string-words' Emanuel Berg
2024-07-14 18:45 ` `string-words' Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-14 23:35 ` `string-words' Emanuel Berg
2024-07-15 2:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-07-15 3:32 ` `string-words' Emanuel Berg
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