From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: DWIM region (was: Re: count regexp hits) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:32:55 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86d12pb988.fsf_-_@zoho.com> References: <86shbmcldx.fsf@zoho.com> <86d12pcvgj.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515101619 32001 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2018 21:33:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 21:33:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 22:33:35 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eXD8j-0007Yp-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:33:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXDAi-0007X9-4j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:35:32 -0500 X-Received: by 10.28.144.4 with SMTP id s4mr75930wmd.31.1515101576581; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:32:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!a71no213708wme.0!news-out.google.com!k126ni1491wmg.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8Kk+1Ar9ehKEEBAWc713vXB6K+k= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221462 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115579 Archived-At: BTW this method on acting on the region (if any) I have found very useful and it has recurred many times in my code: (defun count-regexp-hits (regexp) (interactive "sregexp: ") (let*((region (if mark-active `(,(region-beginning) ,(region-end)) `(,(point-min) ,(point-max)) )) (start (car region)) (end (cadr region)) ) (count-matches regexp start end t) )) Is it the canonical way of doing it as well? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573