From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
"'Andreas Röhler'" <andreas.roehler@online.de>,
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:28:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqi7z31w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111008182953.GA2472@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:29:53 +0000")
> How about `count-lwc' and `count-lwc-region'? These names are short,
> accurate, mnemonic and are reminiscent of the *nix `wc'.
Oh, no, not another TLA ;-)
`wc' was a poorly chosen name for the shell command, it stands
for "Water Closet" and counts everything besides words: newlines,
characters, bytes, longest lines. It's analogous to the "Kitchen Sink",
so let's name the corresponding Emacs commands `M-x ks' :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-08 19:28 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
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 [this message]
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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