From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Character repeation detection
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 11:38:39 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878usjewew.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20140309T064012-622@post.gmane.org
Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:
> Is there a function or package to detect if a character is typed
> repeatedly? E.g. if a is typed 3 or more times in a row (aaa...)
> then call a function.
>
> Is there an existing solution for this?
M-s h r \(.\)\1 RET
(highlight-regexp "\\(.\\)\\1" (quote highlight))
>
> It would even be better if it had repetition suppression, that is
> if I leave my finger on a key so I type a string of a certain character
> (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) then after the first 3 repetition
> the function is called and the rest of the repeated characters are
> removed from the keyboard buffer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-09 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-09 5:47 Character repeation detection Tom
2014-03-09 6:08 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2014-03-09 7:08 ` Tom
2014-03-09 7:12 ` Tom
2014-03-09 13:47 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-03-09 15:29 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-09 16:46 ` Tom
2014-03-09 17:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-03-09 18:20 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-03-09 18:39 ` Tom
2014-03-09 20:20 ` Tom
2014-03-10 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.16788.1394383649.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-09 17:46 ` Dan Espen
2014-03-09 18:42 ` Tom
2014-03-10 1:15 ` Joost Kremers
2014-03-10 1:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-03-09 16:29 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.16786.1394382568.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-09 17:39 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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