From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Counting bracketing marks Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 04:39:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fatiparty@tutanota.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7588"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: Fatiparty Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 17 04:39:52 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nUgzP-0001n7-LQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 04:39:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52010 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUgzN-0007b5-PY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 23:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38004) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUgyy-0007ax-Tm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 23:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from w1.tutanota.de ([81.3.6.162]:36312) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nUgyx-0007FK-AS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2022 23:39:24 -0400 Original-Received: from w3.tutanota.de (unknown [192.168.1.164]) by w1.tutanota.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAA7FBF8C1 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:39:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1647488360; s=s1; d=tutanota.com; h=From:From:To:To:Subject:Subject:Content-Description:Content-ID:Content-Type:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:Cc:Date:Date:In-Reply-To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Message-ID:Reply-To:References:References:Sender; bh=W/jqrKIsV4TDzIFxgk/NExiv0xfI/C4bi5M5GFVhdYg=; b=4FN4oFKXcOTj4QGMuiCXAQQDPUx+AsYPdpz6g2otIdgWpWehowfQmvnsmXTTjHl6 tS5xzt1xDWRXZsdnj/0Zk9Ctxt5Ed6idudhSxQZ1w6GDbTknH1SQ53UEe1VDLfnDyxY YjjqohpFze/nHZaGdzch6hhDM8T4zsob3EKMZ57Qc0VkYXfpZ/5q4dqzpLjwxhkDvPu zLr3FMlel7BF1cldtpBsIYli9OxevF4ErjxK0oHkWcMgmxnEYbmnQo+Xk7Nf8n67i9J 4Nlmh1Za0bn6Hy21GPBsV/gI++YCGDOHIhY/G1MvSZwJeq0IAsP9xUpmoU9uNHAOxsL Ptt4BLM25w== In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=81.3.6.162; envelope-from=fatiparty@tutanota.com; helo=w1.tutanota.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136620 Archived-At: Mar 17, 2022, 00:31 by help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org: > 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) >> =C2=A0 "Count opening and closing bracketing marks." >> =C2=A0 (interactive "r") >> >> =C2=A0 (save-excursion >> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (let ( count (count-matches "\(" (point) region-end) = ) >> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (message "%d" count) ))) >> > But this is giving me=20 > > save-excursion: let' bindings can have only one value-form: count-matc= hes, "(", (point), region-end user-error: Minibuffer window is not activ= e`. > Figured out that I needed to enclose the count variable within parentheses. =C2=A0=C2=A0 (let ( (count (count-matches "\(" (point) region-end)) ) But with this change, I get a count of zero (0) on the following line =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (global-set-key (kbd "[")=C2=A0 'skeleton-pair-ins= ert-maybe) =C2=A0=20