From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Most used words in current buffer Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:41:41 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <861sc1iu1m.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531853019 19831 195.159.176.226 (17 Jul 2018 18:43:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 18:43:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 17 20:43:35 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ffUwg-00053I-BG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:43:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ffUyn-0003YW-78 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:45:45 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: onLrbz09yV+MU3RaxdbMkg.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:mQ+NDIfI0J7rfog6LMUxXiIUxQ4= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223351 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117476 Archived-At: Udyant Wig wrote: > How might I obtain a list of the most > frequently used words in the current buffer? > > I have an inkling of an Emacs Lisp solution, > but I thought to ask here before writing it. Do it! But if you can let go of the Elisp requirement here are some examples how to do it with everyday GNU/Unix tools: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41479/find-n-most-frequent-words-in-a-file -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573