From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:16:46 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81ehyo4umh.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcs0q05l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:41:42 -0400")
> But going beyond this, instead of introducing a separate
> `count-words-region' command, why not fold this functionality into
> `count-lines-region'? After all, `count-lines-region' already reports
> the number of characters, and there's space for it to report the number
> of words too. And it has a convenient binding in M-=, whereas
> `count-words-region' has no default binding.
FWIW, what constitutes a word is also mode dependent. Here is a link
from the Orgmode mailing list.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37762/focus=38014
> Maybe we could rename the combined function something like `count-text'
> (better suggestions welcome).
Let the function name have `statistics' or `stats' in it (for eg
`region-stats'). This way it will be future compatible.
FWIW, LibreOffice reports following stats on a document:
1. No. of Pages
2. No. of Tables
3. No. of Graphics
4. No. of Paragraphs
5. No. of Words
6. No. of Characters
7. No. of Characters excluding spaces
8. No. of lines
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 16:46 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 [this message]
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
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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