From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: count char in string [The Emacs Challenge Competition - round 2, with fallout] Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:53:09 +0300 Organization: GNU.Support Message-ID: References: <87r1pj41wa.fsf@zoho.eu> <875z6tqh10.fsf@pmatoe> <86sg9wdinl.fsf@x201.butler.org> <86y2joas27.fsf@x201.butler.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37332"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ (1036f0e) (2020-10-18) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Leo Butler Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 30 12:53:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kYSyd-0009dE-Rl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:53:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51970 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kYSyc-0002ZK-Tw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kYSy4-0002YV-0O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:48805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kYSy2-0007Mx-CW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.60]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002A0B3A.000000005F9BFEA8.00003456; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:53:11 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86y2joas27.fsf@x201.butler.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/30 07:32:12 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124817 Archived-At: * Leo Butler [2020-10-30 14:10]: > Jean Louis writes: > > > M-x how-many > > Nice. Thank you. That beats all the solutions offered, imo. It may look handy but in background it is very complex, so it does not beat. -- Jean Louis