Comments on: emacs, lisp, php, wordcount, and etc. http://blog.quodlibetor.com/2008/07/08/emacs-lisp-php-wordcount-and-etc/ ain't that the truth Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:31:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: quodlibetor http://blog.quodlibetor.com/2008/07/08/emacs-lisp-php-wordcount-and-etc/#comment-2048 quodlibetor Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:40:13 +0000 http://blog.quodlibetor.com/?p=114#comment-2048 @Rudolf: Oh, wow, your <a href="http://www.neverfriday.com/sweetfriday/2008/06/emacs-tip-word-counting-with-a.html" rel="nofollow">count-words function</a> is <em>way</em> cleaner than mine, and i would guess much faster. @Rudolf: Oh, wow, your count-words function is way cleaner than mine, and i would guess much faster.

]]> By: Rudolf Olah http://blog.quodlibetor.com/2008/07/08/emacs-lisp-php-wordcount-and-etc/#comment-2043 Rudolf Olah Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:06:33 +0000 http://blog.quodlibetor.com/?p=114#comment-2043 I wrote a blog post on <a href="http://www.neverfriday.com/sweetfriday/2008/06/emacs-tip-word-counting-with-a.html" title="Word counting with a regular expression" rel="nofollow">how to count words in Emacs</a>, which uses the <code>how-many</code> function. It works with Emacs22+. In any case, I was thinking there was a way to handle this with the <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsSyntaxTable" rel="nofollow">syntax table</a> but it looks like that only deals with individual characters. Also, this function is flawed if you're dealing with lists or other types of blocks. If you wanted to ignore blocks when counting words I think you could use the <code>latex-standard-block-names</code> variable to check if you're in a block or not. Hm. Oh, idea, you could count all the words and then count all the blocks and then subtract their count from the total word count. That could work, though I'm not sure how quick that would be when you have a huge document... I wrote a blog post on how to count words in Emacs, which uses the how-many function. It works with Emacs22+.

In any case, I was thinking there was a way to handle this with the syntax table but it looks like that only deals with individual characters.

Also, this function is flawed if you’re dealing with lists or other types of blocks. If you wanted to ignore blocks when counting words I think you could use the latex-standard-block-names variable to check if you’re in a block or not. Hm. Oh, idea, you could count all the words and then count all the blocks and then subtract their count from the total word count. That could work, though I’m not sure how quick that would be when you have a huge document…

]]> By: Bookmarks about Emacs http://blog.quodlibetor.com/2008/07/08/emacs-lisp-php-wordcount-and-etc/#comment-2024 Bookmarks about Emacs Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:45:24 +0000 http://blog.quodlibetor.com/?p=114#comment-2024 [...] - bookmarked by 2 members originally found by minervahan on July 18, 2008 emacs, lisp, php, wordcount, and etc. http://blog.quodlibetor.com/2008/07/08/emacs-lisp-php-wordcount-and-etc/ - bookmarked by 1 members [...] [...] - bookmarked by 2 members originally found by minervahan on July 18, 2008 emacs, lisp, php, wordcount, and etc. http://blog.quodlibetor.com/2008/07/08/emacs-lisp-php-wordcount-and-etc/ - bookmarked by 1 members [...]

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