`string-words'

`string-words'

[Emanuel Berg]

I've been writing some Elisp, some of it turned up all-Emacs.

Maybe it already exists in Emacs or ELPA, if so I'd be happy
to use that instead. Are there any options?

If not, this is a candidate for a string library.

;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

(defun string-words (str &optional no-sort keep-case)
  (or keep-case (setq str (downcase str)))
  (let ((words (split-string str "[[:space:]()]+" t "[[:punct:]]+")))
    (if no-sort
        words
      (sort words) )))

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Re: `string-words'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 20:09:04 +0200
> 
> I've been writing some Elisp, some of it turned up all-Emacs.
> 
> Maybe it already exists in Emacs or ELPA, if so I'd be happy
> to use that instead. Are there any options?

We have count-words.

Re: `string-words'

[Emanuel Berg]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> We have count-words.

Ah, no, this is about getting a list of words, so you can do
stuff with them.

Here is what I did with it, not anything for Emacs tho, ha:

  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/b-a-original.el

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Re: `string-words'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:35:44 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > We have count-words.
> 
> Ah, no, this is about getting a list of words, so you can do
> stuff with them.

In Emacs we prefer to "do stuff" on text directly in the buffer,
instead of first extracting the text as strings and then working with
those strings.

Re: `string-words'

[Emanuel Berg]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>> We have count-words.
>> 
>> Ah, no, this is about getting a list of words, so you can
>> do stuff with them.
>
> In Emacs we prefer to "do stuff" on text directly in the
> buffer, instead of first extracting the text as strings and
> then working with those strings.

Right, and I'm not against it for the situations where it is
preferable, of course.

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