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: count regexp hits Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:47:24 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86d12pcvgj.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86shbmcldx.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515091720 22018 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2018 18:48:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 18:48:40 +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 Thu Jan 04 19:48:36 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 1eXAZ7-0005GO-30 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:48:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXAb6-0007i4-8S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:50:36 -0500 X-Received: by 10.28.198.1 with SMTP id w1mr39755wmf.11.1515091645475; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:47:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!a71no76773wme.0!news-out.google.com!k126ni526wmg.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:MIFDxtOrwWsLWJ1aHsY5WnK/6Ck= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221458 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:115575 Archived-At: Re: count regexp hits Drew Adams wrote: > `C-h f count-matches': > > count-matches is an alias for `how-many' in > `replace.el'. OK, thanks. (defun count-regexp-hits (regexp) (interactive "sregexp: ") (let*((region (if mark-active `(,(region-beginning) ,(region-end)) `(,(point-min) ,(point-max)) )) (start (car region)) (end (cadr region)) ) (count-matches regexp start end t) )) > (count-matches REGEXP &optional RSTART REND > INTERACTIVE) > > Print and return number of matches for REGEXP > following point. When called from Lisp and > INTERACTIVE Here the docstring mentions the arguments out of order but I suppose that truly is "bike-shedding" even tho I don't like that expression since everyone knows that bikes in light, bright colors (e.g., orange, cyan, and ocean blue) are faster than bikes with trunky, black and brown frames... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573