From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Character repeation detection Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 07:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <878usjewew.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394349328 12482 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2014 07:15:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 07:15:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 08:15:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WMXxQ-0007TP-7g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:15:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42942 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMXxP-0004sQ-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 03:15:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMXx3-0004kg-DR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 03:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMXww-00025W-4h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 03:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WMXwv-000241-Ur for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 03:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WMXwt-0006yl-Nc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:15:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 94-21-240-25.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.240.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:15:03 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-240-25.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:15:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.240.25 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96336 Archived-At: Tom gmail.com> writes: > > Jambunathan K gmail.com> writes: > > > > Is there an existing solution for this? > > > > M-s h r \(.\)\1 RET > > > > (highlight-regexp "\\(.\\)\\1" (quote highlight)) > > > > I'm not talking about highlighting. I'd like an actual function > call when this happens. > And I don't mean 3 or more of the same character in the buffer somewhere. I'm interested in detecting when the user types 3 or more of the same character in a row.