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Subject: Re: Elisp: help on string operations for fast file visiting
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 10:28:27 +0100
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* Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote:
>
> On 2016-11-07 17:27, Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:
>
>> I'd like to get a "Sorry" message for (1). Easy, if only I know how to
>> count lines in strings (as opposed to buffers).
>
> You could start by doing (split-string the_string "\n" t) (the last 't'
> says to omit the empty strings). So you get a list, possibly empty, of
> strings.
>
> Would this help for the rest?

Thanks for the tipp!

John Kitchin sent me some code I have to digest. From the first
look, it should help me to come up with the complete solution I
need. Thanks! I'll report back ;-)

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