From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Character repeation detection Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 11:38:39 +0530 Message-ID: <878usjewew.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394345303 8403 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2014 06:08:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 06:08:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 07:08:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WMWuT-0003d8-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 07:08:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMWuT-0000BT-Aq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 01:08:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMWuD-0000BO-7O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 01:08:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMWu5-0001fd-Ts for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 01:08:13 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMWu5-0001fZ-NF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 01:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WMWu3-0003Er-Qv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 07:08:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 101.63.214.51 ([101.63.214.51]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 07:08:03 +0100 Original-Received: from kjambunathan by 101.63.214.51 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 07:08:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 101.63.214.51 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FwrNLSMzN080IfLsFo9E8pOxxGU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96334 Archived-At: Tom writes: > Is there a function or package to detect if a character is typed > repeatedly? E.g. if a is typed 3 or more times in a row (aaa...) > then call a function. > > Is there an existing solution for this? M-s h r \(.\)\1 RET (highlight-regexp "\\(.\\)\\1" (quote highlight)) > > It would even be better if it had repetition suppression, that is > if I leave my finger on a key so I type a string of a certain character > (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) then after the first 3 repetition > the function is called and the rest of the repeated characters are > removed from the keyboard buffer.