Re: simple useful functions

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 03.11.2010 06:27, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull:
> Tak Ota writes:
>
>   >  Don't you like the simplicity?
>
> Proliferating unrelated functions is a complexity of its own.  Occur
> already does this kind of thing;

Hi Stephen,

AFAIU `occur' selects lines, not strings.

Isn't `collect-string' an instructive example how to write simple and 
effective code in Emacs Lisp?

Andreas


that's where I would look for this
> functionality.  Sure, you can add the function, but unless you can
> document it for other users in a discoverable way, you should add it
> to your init file, not to Emacs. ;-)
>
>   >  How about simply adding collect-string to replace.el instead of
>   >  trying to associate it with occur in a clumsy way?
>
> Uh, what "replace" functionality does "collect-string" provide?