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collect-string (was: simple useful functions)
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Stefan Monnier |
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collect-string (was: simple useful functions) |
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Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:58:20 -0400 |
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>> How about rename the command as collect-occur instead of
>> collect-string and document it as next?
> Wrong namespace. IMO, the name should *start* with occur (but Stefan
> and Yidong are final authorities on that).
Agreed, namespace cleanliness is one of my favorite forms of
anal retentiveness.
The way I see it, the suggested collect-string is a variant of occur
where the result buffer contains none of the regexp matches's context.
So it would make sense to integrate it very tightly with `occur',
i.e. make M-x occur do the job of collect-strings for some particular
value of its argument NLINES. Currently, NLINES is assumed to be
a number and all values of that number have a useful meaning, so we'd
have to add this new feature via a non-number value of NLINES.
E.g. C-u M-x occur could do the collect-string thingy (which is still an
incompatible change since some people may like to use C-u M-x occur to get
4 lines of context, but you can make omelets without breaking eggs).
Stefan
- Re: simple useful functions, Tak Ota, 2010/11/01
- Re: simple useful functions, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/11/01
- Re: simple useful functions, Tak Ota, 2010/11/03
- Re: simple useful functions, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/11/03
- Re: simple useful functions, Tak Ota, 2010/11/03
- collect-string (was: simple useful functions),
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: collect-string (was: simple useful functions), Tak Ota, 2010/11/04
- Re: collect-string (was: simple useful functions), Tak Ota, 2010/11/04
- Re: collect-string (was: simple useful functions), Tak Ota, 2010/11/04
- Re: collect-string (was: simple useful functions), Andreas Röhler, 2010/11/05
- Re: collect-string, Stefan Monnier, 2010/11/08
- Re: collect-string, Tak Ota, 2010/11/08
- Re: collect-string, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/11/09
- Re: collect-string, Tak Ota, 2010/11/09