From: fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Fatiparty <fatiparty@tutanota.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Counting bracketing marks
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:31:14 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MyKHHU1--3-2@tutanota.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MyJGX-H--3-2@tutanota.com-MyJGbbw--3-2>
Mar 16, 2022, 19:48 by help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org:
> I want to count the number of opening and closing marks `(` and `)` .
>
> (defun bracketing-count (region-start region-end)
> "Count opening and closing bracketing marks."
> (interactive "r")
>
> (save-excursion
> (let ( count (count-matches "\(" (point) region-end) )
> (message "%d" count) )))
>
But this is giving me
save-excursion: let' bindings can have only one value-form: count-matches, "(", (point), region-end user-error: Minibuffer window is not active`.
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