From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Rethinking count-words-region
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:41:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcs0q05l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
The command `count-words-region', newly introduced for Emacs 24, is
inconsistent with the pre-existing `count-lines-region'. If no region
is active, the former reports the number of words in the buffer
(implemented in Bug#9429). The latter always reports the number of
lines in the region, whether or not it is active.
The two ought to be consistent. The behavior of `count-words-region' is
the better one, I think, even if adopting it incurs some backward
incompatibility.
But going beyond this, instead of introducing a separate
`count-words-region' command, why not fold this functionality into
`count-lines-region'? After all, `count-lines-region' already reports
the number of characters, and there's space for it to report the number
of words too. And it has a convenient binding in M-=, whereas
`count-words-region' has no default binding.
Maybe we could rename the combined function something like `count-text'
(better suggestions welcome).
next reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-07 15:41 Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-10-07 16:46 ` Rethinking count-words-region Jambunathan K
2011-10-08 16:53 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:51 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:58 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 18:11 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:23 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 19:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-08 19:28 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 18:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 16:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:51 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 20:04 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 21:09 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 21:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-09 0:57 ` chad
2011-10-09 1:05 ` Drew Adams
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