Re: Character repeation detection

[Jambunathan K]

Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a function or package to detect if a character is typed
> repeatedly? E.g. if a is typed 3 or more times in a row (aaa...)
> then call a function.
>
> Is there an existing solution for this?

    M-s h r \(.\)\1 RET

    (highlight-regexp "\\(.\\)\\1" (quote highlight))

>
> It would even be better if it had repetition suppression, that is
> if I leave my finger on a key so I type a string of a certain character
> (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) then after the first 3 repetition
> the function is called and the rest of the repeated characters are
> removed from the keyboard buffer.