From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:28:51 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87pqi7z31w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> 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> <87ehyn5om6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8033ADFAE22E4C8A824F72C4884556D5@us.oracle.com> <20111008182953.GA2472@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318102916 14886 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2011 19:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 19:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , 'Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler'?= , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 21:41:52 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 1RCcmN-00048K-Cm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:41:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCcmM-0000GK-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCcmJ-0000Ft-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCcmI-0008EX-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:58610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCcmI-0008EF-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015B26E808B; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15142451C52D; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:41:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111008182953.GA2472@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:29:53 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.113.175.8 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:144762 Archived-At: > How about `count-lwc' and `count-lwc-region'? These names are short, > accurate, mnemonic and are reminiscent of the *nix `wc'. Oh, no, not another TLA ;-) `wc' was a poorly chosen name for the shell command, it stands for "Water Closet" and counts everything besides words: newlines, characters, bytes, longest lines. It's analogous to the "Kitchen Sink", so let's name the corresponding Emacs commands `M-x ks' :-)