`buffer-sentences'

`buffer-sentences'

[Emanuel Berg]

I've been writing some Elisp, some of it turned up all-Emacs.

Maybe it already exists in Emacs or ELPA, if so I'd be happy
to use that instead. Are there any options?

If not, this is something that can be put somewhere. I'd like
to discuss what improvements can be made?

Here, one can also think of a general buffer parsing function,
where you could submit what unit you would like it to be split
up into.

(require 'cl-lib)
(require 'thingatpt)

(defun buffer-sentences (&optional beg end no-sort)
  (or beg (setq beg (point-min)))
  (or end (setq end (point-max)))
  (save-mark-and-excursion
    (goto-char beg)
    (cl-loop
      with buf-strs
      with next-str
      while (< (point) end) do
        (setq next-str (sentence-at-point t))
        (when next-str
          (push next-str buf-strs) )
        (forward-sentence)
      finally return (if no-sort buf-strs (sort buf-strs)) )))

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Re: `buffer-sentences'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 20:13:04 +0200
> 
> I've been writing some Elisp, some of it turned up all-Emacs.
> 
> Maybe it already exists in Emacs or ELPA, if so I'd be happy
> to use that instead. Are there any options?

We have count-sentences.

Re: `buffer-sentences'

[Emanuel Berg]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> I've been writing some Elisp, some of it turned up
>> all-Emacs.
>> 
>> Maybe it already exists in Emacs or ELPA, if so I'd be
>> happy to use that instead. Are there any options?
>
> We have count-sentences.

This is also not about counting but getting the data to do
cool stuff with it.

By all means, if you have it in a list, you can do `length' to
count them as well, but that wasn't the (only) thing so I
"had to" write it:

  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/b-a-original.el

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