From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Rethinking count-words-region Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:25:31 -0700 Message-ID: <8033ADFAE22E4C8A824F72C4884556D5@us.oracle.com> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318098348 20071 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2011 18:25:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Andreas_R=F6hler'?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Chong Yidong'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 20:25:44 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 1RCbah-0004pU-KQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:25:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbah-000142-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:25:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbaf-00013v-B6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbad-0000DF-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:25:41 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:53402) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbad-0000Cq-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id p98IPaS0022404 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:25:38 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p98IPaos019288 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:25:36 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt118.oracle.com (abhmt118.oracle.com [141.146.116.70]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p98IPU2l018771; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.53.18) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:25:30 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87ehyn5om6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Thread-Index: AcyF52s87tHgpZxPTHeXrbvqbc+xUwAAC84A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4E9095A2.00FA:SCFMA922111,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 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:144757 Archived-At: > > 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. ;-)