* How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
@ 2022-11-19 20:45 Pravles Redneсkoff via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-19 23:31 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-20 3:10 ` Bob Newell
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From: Pravles Redneсkoff via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor @ 2022-11-19 20:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hello!
I want to create a minor mode which allows you to see the number of words in a buffer.
I want it to work in the following way:
1. User enters "M-x pwc-set-counter" and sets the word counter to a particular number.
2. Whenever a word is added to a buffer, the word counter is incremented.
3. Whenever a word is removed from a buffer, the word counter is decremented.
4. As long as the minor mode is active, the value of the word counter is visible in the mode line (same place where current row and column are shown in some modes).
Restrictions:
1. This minor mode should work for text (Org mode) buffers with up to 3000 words (i. e. we are NOT talking gigabytes of text).
2. This minor mode must be compatible with the evil and Org mode.
How is the minor mode I want to develop different from existing solutions?
I want to be able to count words that I wrote on a particular day.
Imagine I have a goal of writing at least 1000 words per day. When I begin to write on a new day, I reset the word counter to zero. Then I write in one buffer and see the progress in the modeline. Then I may switch to a different buffer (a different chapter), manually change the word counter and continue to work.
What I want to implement is the word counter from Scrivener which shows you the number of words you wrote today across different chapters. It also shows you a visual representatio of the percentage of the daily quota.
As far as I know, none of the existing Emacs word counters offers this functionality.
Questions:
1. How can I create an "event listener" (sorry for the non-Emacsian terminology) which would be called whenever the user types something in the buffer?
2. Are there existing functions that count the words in the current buffer which I can reuse in my minor mode?
Thanks in advance
Pravles
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* RE: [External] : How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
2022-11-19 20:45 How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode? Pravles Redneсkoff via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
@ 2022-11-19 23:31 ` Drew Adams
2022-11-20 3:10 ` Bob Newell
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From: Drew Adams @ 2022-11-19 23:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pravles Redneсkoff
Cc: 'Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)'
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> As far as I know, none of the existing Emacs
> word counters offers this functionality.
Vanilla Emacs offers you the word count in the
region, with `M-=' (`count-words-region'). As
you say, that doesn't provide what you request.
But may help somewhat.
___
This too doesn't offer what you request, but it
might help you nevertheless: `modeline-region.el'.
___
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ModeLineRegion
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/modeline-region.el
___
1. Customize option `mlr-non-rectangle-style' to
"Lines, words, and chars" (`lines+words+chars').
2. To get the same effect with a rectangular region
(selection), customize `mlr-rectangle-style' to
"Rows, columns, words, and chars"
(`rows+cols+words+chars').
3. Enable minor mode `modeline-region-mode' or
`global-modeline-region-mode'.
Whenever the region is active, the number of words
(and more) selected is shown in the mode line. So
`C-x C-x' shows you the count any time.
Works even for a rectangular region. (Option
`mlr-count-partial-words-flag' controls whether to
count words that straddle rectangle boundaries.)
As usual, `C-x h' to select the whole buffer, to
see buffer counts.
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* Re: How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
2022-11-19 20:45 How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode? Pravles Redneсkoff via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-19 23:31 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
@ 2022-11-20 3:10 ` Bob Newell
1 sibling, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Bob Newell @ 2022-11-20 3:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pravles Redneсkoff; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
This might provide some of what you want although perhaps not all.
https://github.com/emacsmirror/nanowrimo
On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 10:46 Pravles Redneсkoff via Users list for the GNU
Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I want to create a minor mode which allows you to see the number of words
> in a buffer.
>
> I want it to work in the following way:
>
> 1. User enters "M-x pwc-set-counter" and sets the word counter to a
> particular number.
> 2. Whenever a word is added to a buffer, the word counter is incremented.
> 3. Whenever a word is removed from a buffer, the word counter is
> decremented.
> 4. As long as the minor mode is active, the value of the word counter is
> visible in the mode line (same place where current row and column are shown
> in some modes).
>
> Restrictions:
>
> 1. This minor mode should work for text (Org mode) buffers with up to 3000
> words (i. e. we are NOT talking gigabytes of text).
> 2. This minor mode must be compatible with the evil and Org mode.
>
> How is the minor mode I want to develop different from existing solutions?
>
> I want to be able to count words that I wrote on a particular day.
>
> Imagine I have a goal of writing at least 1000 words per day. When I begin
> to write on a new day, I reset the word counter to zero. Then I write in
> one buffer and see the progress in the modeline. Then I may switch to a
> different buffer (a different chapter), manually change the word counter
> and continue to work.
>
> What I want to implement is the word counter from Scrivener which shows
> you the number of words you wrote today across different chapters. It also
> shows you a visual representatio of the percentage of the daily quota.
>
> As far as I know, none of the existing Emacs word counters offers this
> functionality.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. How can I create an "event listener" (sorry for the non-Emacsian
> terminology) which would be called whenever the user types something in the
> buffer?
> 2. Are there existing functions that count the words in the current buffer
> which I can reuse in my minor mode?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Pravles
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* How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
@ 2022-11-19 20:44 Dmitrii Pisarenko
2022-11-21 9:39 ` Eric S Fraga
0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Dmitrii Pisarenko @ 2022-11-19 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hello!
I want to create a minor mode which allows you to see the number of words in a buffer.
I want it to work in the following way:
1. User enters "M-x pwc-set-counter" and sets the word counter to a particular number.
2. Whenever a word is added to a buffer, the word counter is incremented.
3. Whenever a word is removed from a buffer, the word counter is decremented.
4. As long as the minor mode is active, the value of the word counter is visible in the mode line (same place where current row and column are shown in some modes).
Restrictions:
1. This minor mode should work for text (Org mode) buffers with up to 3000 words (i. e. we are NOT talking gigabytes of text).
2. This minor mode must be compatible with the evil and Org mode.
How is the minor mode I want to develop different from existing solutions?
I want to be able to count words that I wrote on a particular day.
Imagine I have a goal of writing at least 1000 words per day. When I begin to write on a new day, I reset the word counter to zero. Then I write in one buffer and see the progress in the modeline. Then I may switch to a different buffer (a different chapter), manually change the word counter and continue to work.
What I want to implement is the word counter from Scrivener which shows you the number of words you wrote today across different chapters. It also shows you a visual representatio of the percentage of the daily quota.
As far as I know, none of the existing Emacs word counters offers this functionality (correct me if I'm wrong).
Questions:
1. How can I create an "event listener" (sorry for the non-Emacsian terminology) which would be called whenever the user types something in the buffer?
2. Are there existing functions that count the words in the current buffer which I can reuse in my minor mode?
Thanks in advance
Pravles
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* Re: How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
2022-11-19 20:44 Dmitrii Pisarenko
@ 2022-11-21 9:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-11-21 10:08 ` Jean Louis
0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga @ 2022-11-21 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 20:44, Dmitrii Pisarenko wrote:
> 1. How can I create an "event listener" (sorry for the non-Emacsian
> terminology) which would be called whenever the user types something
> in the buffer?
Naïvely (i.e. I may be totally ignorant of a proper solution), there is
post-command-hook which can be used to process every single key event.
--
Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-11-13) on Debian 11.4
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* Re: How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
2022-11-21 9:39 ` Eric S Fraga
@ 2022-11-21 10:08 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-21 10:34 ` Emanuel Berg
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0 siblings, 3 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Jean Louis @ 2022-11-21 10:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric S Fraga; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
* Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> [2022-11-21 12:40]:
> On Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 20:44, Dmitrii Pisarenko wrote:
> > 1. How can I create an "event listener" (sorry for the non-Emacsian
> > terminology) which would be called whenever the user types something
> > in the buffer?
>
> Naïvely (i.e. I may be totally ignorant of a proper solution), there is
> post-command-hook which can be used to process every single key event.
There are 2 conditions here, one is that user wish to see the number
of words visualy, other is that one wants to compare that once editing
is finished.
One need not see every single word counted. What if user enters 500
words at once, then it would be futil to slow down the process until
every single word has been counted.
It implies, one could invoke function with number of words each in a
while.
In that case, one could use this function:
run-with-timer is an interactive byte-compiled Lisp function in
‘timer.el’.
(run-with-timer SECS REPEAT FUNCTION &rest ARGS)
--
Jean
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* Re: How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
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 17:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Emanuel Berg @ 2022-11-21 10:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I remember some counter that increased as the buffers increased
in size, but probably this was/is based on chars and not
words.
There are places I'll remember ...
--
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https://dataswamp.org/~incal
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* Re: How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
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
2 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga @ 2022-11-21 11:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Monday, 21 Nov 2022 at 13:08, Jean Louis wrote:
> One need not see every single word counted. What if user enters 500
> words at once, then it would be futil to slow down the process until
> every single word has been counted.
I agree completely. Hence my use of naïve... I was answering the
specific request by the OP who wanted to capture every keystroke which
is indeed overkill and likely to introduce significant lag.
--
Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-11-13) on Debian 11.4
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* Re: How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
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 17:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-21 17:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-22 15:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2 siblings, 2 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2022-11-21 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jean Louis; +Cc: Eric S Fraga, help-gnu-emacs
On 2022-11-21, at 11:08, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> * Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> [2022-11-21 12:40]:
>> On Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 20:44, Dmitrii Pisarenko wrote:
>> > 1. How can I create an "event listener" (sorry for the non-Emacsian
>> > terminology) which would be called whenever the user types something
>> > in the buffer?
>>
>> Naïvely (i.e. I may be totally ignorant of a proper solution), there is
>> post-command-hook which can be used to process every single key event.
>
> There are 2 conditions here, one is that user wish to see the number
> of words visualy, other is that one wants to compare that once editing
> is finished.
>
> One need not see every single word counted. What if user enters 500
> words at once, then it would be futil to slow down the process until
> every single word has been counted.
>
> It implies, one could invoke function with number of words each in a
> while.
>
> In that case, one could use this function:
>
> run-with-timer is an interactive byte-compiled Lisp function in
> ‘timer.el’.
>
> (run-with-timer SECS REPEAT FUNCTION &rest ARGS)
I would rather look at `run-with-idle-timer'.
Also, there are `count-words-region' and `count-words'. I'm not sure
what the differences are, you might want to look at their docstrings
and/or code.
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".)
Hth,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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* Re: How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
2022-11-21 17:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
@ 2022-11-21 17:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-22 15:33 ` Emanuel Berg
1 sibling, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2022-11-21 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jean Louis; +Cc: Eric S Fraga, help-gnu-emacs
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
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* Re: How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
2022-11-21 17:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-21 17:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
@ 2022-11-22 15:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-26 6:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
1 sibling, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Emanuel Berg @ 2022-11-22 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Also, there are `count-words-region'
Remove.
> and `count-words'.
DWIM region beg end defaults to buffer.
--
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