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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Kevin Rodgers'" <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>, <9959@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#9959: 24.0.90; `count-words' command from a narrowed buffer
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 07:05:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <09E90207C2FB4EBAA78235DA57686D17@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j9d04n$aoq$1@dough.gmane.org>

> If I've narrowed a very large buffer to a small region, I am 
> not interested in the counts for the entire buffer nor
> willing to wait for them.

Yes, that's the cost of such combining.

Possible solutions include (a) adding separate commands for individual pieces of
the combination and (b) finding a way (e.g. prefix arg) to specify interactively
to this command that you want only one or two pieces of info, not everything.






  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-05 10:28 bug#9959: 24.0.90; `count-words' command from a narrowed buffer Dani Moncayo
2011-11-06 15:01 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-06 15:34   ` Drew Adams
2011-11-06 16:30     ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-06 17:30       ` Drew Adams
2011-11-09  4:39     ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-11-09 15:05       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-11-09 16:01         ` Drew Adams
2011-11-09 16:36           ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-09 16:51             ` Drew Adams
2012-07-18 14:32       ` Chong Yidong
2022-02-13  9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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