From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:29:53 +0000 Message-ID: <20111008182953.GA2472@acm.acm> References: <87vcs0q05l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83ty7kfzed.fsf@gnu.org> <874nzk5xvc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkhc4j36.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E908F40.3080905@online.de> <7257E583E25E4190908D52CFC5F5F945@us.oracle.com> <87ehyn5om6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8033ADFAE22E4C8A824F72C4884556D5@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318098874 23478 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2011 18:34:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , 'Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler'?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 20:34:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbj8-0007ss-EG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:34:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbj7-0001mA-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbj5-0001m4-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbj4-0002P8-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:57346 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbj4-0002Ot-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 84194 invoked by uid 3782); 8 Oct 2011 18:34:20 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9556540.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.101.64]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:34:18 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 2939 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Oct 2011 18:29:54 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8033ADFAE22E4C8A824F72C4884556D5@us.oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144758 Archived-At: 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).