From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:23:29 -0400 Message-ID: <87ehyn5om6.fsf@stupidchicken.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318098222 19341 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2011 18:23:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?'Andreas_R=C3=B6hler'?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 20:23:37 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 1RCbYe-0004Bf-DW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:23:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbYd-0000fM-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37709) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbYb-0000f5-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:23:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbYZ-00085x-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:23:33 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.143]:60952) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCbYZ-00085g-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp-128-36-59-9.central.yale.edu [128.36.59.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p98INToD016124 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 8 Oct 2011 14:23:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <7257E583E25E4190908D52CFC5F5F945@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:11:10 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.143 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.143 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:144756 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > 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.