From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
"'Andreas Röhler'" <andreas.roehler@online.de>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:29:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111008182953.GA2472@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8033ADFAE22E4C8A824F72C4884556D5@us.oracle.com>
Hi, everybody.
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:25:31AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > If you define a command that does multiple things, then try
> > > to find a name that expresses that.
> > The old count-lines-region also reported a character count, and
> > Unix's `wc' also reports lines and characters. I suggest living
> > with it.
> 2 (or 3) wrongs don't make a right. ;-)
How about `count-lwc' and `count-lwc-region'? These names are short,
accurate, mnemonic and are reminiscent of the *nix `wc'.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-08 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-07 15:41 Rethinking count-words-region Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 16:46 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-08 16:53 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:51 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:58 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 18:11 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:23 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:29 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2011-10-08 19:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-08 19:28 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 18:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 16:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:51 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 20:04 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 21:09 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 21:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-09 0:57 ` chad
2011-10-09 1:05 ` Drew Adams
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