From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:21:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sficcjfa.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu2scjmt.fsf@mbork.pl>
On 2022-11-21, at 18:17, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
> Would a mode which displays the number of words in the current buffer
> whenever you stop typing for a few seconds be enough? (I am not sure
> how exactly you want to obtain the "number of words typed in today".)
Ah, ok. I reread your initial message. I don't think yours is the
easiest way to do that. Here's how I would do it: I would /store/ the
number of words in a buffer somewhere (a buffer-local variable is one
possible idea) every time the counting function is called /the first
time on any given day/. This way you wouldn't have to set the counter
to zero etc. - Emacs could even plot a graph showing your progress
during several days?
And now I'm /very/ much tempted to actually write this piece of code.
It could be quite fun!
It's even better. It /might/ be a good idea ot turn it into an
educational blog post about Elisp or something similar.
WDYT? I think I could come up with a prototype within a few days...
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-21 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-19 20:44 How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode? Dmitrii Pisarenko
2022-11-21 9:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-11-21 10:08 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-21 10:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-21 11:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-11-21 12:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-21 17:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-21 17:21 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2022-11-21 18:56 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-22 15:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-26 6:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-26 14:51 ` Emanuel Berg
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2022-11-19 20:45 Pravles Redneсkoff via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-20 3:10 ` Bob Newell
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