Questions tagged [words]
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How can I write a function to modify the word before or after the cursor?
I have written the following function to shorten a string:
(defun shorten-hash ()
"Shorten string (forward or backwards) to eight characters;
particularly for shortening hashes"
(...
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Why can I write one function to work on words before *and* after the cursor?
I have written the following function to shorten a string, which is useful particularly when shortening commit hashes:
(defun shorten-hash ()
"Shorten string (forward or backwards) to eight ...
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define a new evil command
I'm trying to reverse some words, and I have it set up where I can visually select them and hit ,rw to reverse them.
How do I set it up so ,rw also works with a motion. E.g. ,rw3w to reverse 3 words?
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How to exclude whole headings and their contents from word counting
For certain articles, one does not need certain sections to be counted in the final word count. How to signal this in an Orgmode buffer? Perhaps there is a tag or similar feature to do this on the ...
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How to get emacs count text words only without counting words in comments, code blocks, and markups in markdown?
Publishers set a word count limit you have to meet in writing a manuscirpt. I am trying to write up the manuscript using markdown in emacs.
Consider the example below.
MWE
# Results {-}
## Topic 1 {-}...
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Why do Emacs Lisp regular expressions match the percentage and dollar sign as word characters?
I ran into this behavior by accident and it seems quite unusual to me.
Why do Emacs Lisp regular expressions match the percentage and dollar sign as word characters?
One theory I had was that this is ...
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Getting Magit to Show Word Count Diff
I'm aware that by setting
(setq magit-diff-refine-hunk 'all)
we can get magit to show the words added/changed:
Question: Is there a way to force the display the total number of words added, total ...
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Capturing the next N words and elements
I want to do two things.
Starting at point, get the next N words and store them in a list.
Starting at point, get the next N elements (any isolated text sequence) and store them in a list.
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How do I break a large piece of text in to a list of 5-word phrases, and identify the oft-repeated phrases [closed]
I would like a function that finds repeating sequences of text sections. Would start with defining a number N. Let I have (setq N 5) say. I would take the first five text sections, then look for ...
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Taking word at point interactively
I would like to adapt this function for the interactive case, that takes the word at point.
(defun rules-tablet (word)
"Shorten word at point according to specific rules."
(interactive)
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Sorting counts in descending order
Have the following code that counts the number of times words are used. I want to list the results sorted by the number of counts.
(defun rk-word-analysis (reg-beg reg-end)
"Count ...
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How to match two consecutive identical words except for the case of the initial characters?
I'm looking for a solution to match two consecutive identical words except for the case of the initial characters with query-replace-regexp:
The the
the The
I can't figure out how to match these ...
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Find and recursively delete (with query) consecutive duplicate words not necessarily in the same line and/or same case
I would like to scan through a (latex) document and recursively delete -- WITH QUERY -- all consecutive, repeated words that need not be on the same line and/or the same case. Here is a simple ...
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Count words under subtree ignoring the properties drawer and the subheading
How can we count the number of words inside a heading? (excluding the properties drawer and the actual heading title)
An example:
**Answer
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: <guid>
:END:
This is some text here
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Is there a command to wrap a characters in a word using Emacs? Or something to insert "/" around a word while using org-mode?
In org-mode, writing a word wrapped by / makes it italic. For instance, /word/ becomes word.
Is there a command in Emacs to make something go from ẁord to /word/?
Maybe some org related command only ...
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evil mode: delete word starting with backslash leaves the last character
I am using evil mode.
In org-mode files, when I try to delete a word with dw and the word starts with a \, the last letter of the word is not deleted.
For example, if my cursor is on the b of \begin{...
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I want when "C-w" is pressed, execute delete-backward-char when no region is selected and kill-region when the region is selected
Similarly, I want to delete word backward when C-u C-w is pressed.
I would also value recommendation on cut/paste/kill conventions.
I tried to bind C-w to delete-backward-char, but kill-region stopped ...
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Deleting words while preserving clipboard
Is there a way to keep the clipboard contents when deleting entire words with M-DEL?
For instance, I'd like to delete a word (M-DEL) and then paste (C-y) what I had previously copied (with ctrl+c) ...
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highlight occurences for thing under point also for substrings
With point over a word, pressing C-u C-s highlights this word and any identical words. How can I make this work for substring search as well, i.e. if highlighting the word house, occurrences of houses ...
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How to change Emacs' word movement behaviour?
I want to do this on forward-word: (| shows the cursor position)
Normal Behaviour:
int main(int argc, char *args[])
{
int a = 45|;
printf|("%i", a);
}
What I want to do:
//forward-...
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Treat hyphens as part of a word?
I use:
(global-superword-mode t)
in my init.el because I don't want Emacs to treat _ as a word delimiter.
How do I do the same thing for -? I'd like to enable this globally.
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tools for camelcase and other means of word separation
Often I am involved with transforming text with one system of word separation (e.g., camelcase) into another system (e.g., hyphen separation, space separation, underscore separation. For example, if I ...
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How to jump to backward found word when switched into reverse incremental search?
When I do I-search: or I-search-backward , it starts right away from the first word it find.
Original behavior:
word1 |[cursor]word1 ; cursor moves here
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How to regexp-search for a word surrounded by spaces
I'm looking at this
One use of regexp-quote is to combine an exact string match with
context described as a regular expression. For example, this searches
for the string that is the value of ...
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Emacs counts words incorrectly
Here is an interesting discovery. Copy the following text into a buffer:
'hello world'
'नमस्कार नमस्कार'
One can see that there are four words, two on line 1 and two on line 2.
Emacs count these as ...
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Display word count in modeline without lag
Problem
Stopped using wc-mode as it is not snappy anymore (as text writing usually is) with text document of 10k words. It appears that it counts the whole buffer after every change which seems to ...
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forward-word and non-letter "words"
Using forward-word with this line:
foo *** *** bar,
I want to have the folowing behavior:
foo| ***| ***| bar|,
Not:
foo| *** *** bar|,
So, if between spaces there are only non-letter symbols, ...
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Doom Emacs does not display wordcount
Running Doom Emacs 2.0.9.
If I make a selection, I can see the word-count. This is as expected because doom-modeline-enable-word-count is set to t.
However, I was expecting to see a word-count as I ...
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Get Emacs to jump to the start of a word after isearch
If I use isearch to search for the word "accommodating" in my document, I have to type acc before the cursor jumps to the word. When I press enter the cursor is on the the second "c" as in ...
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Viewing the number of words in org or text files in one of the details columns in Emacs Dired
Is there a way to display the number of words in org or text files in one of the details columns in Dired? This would save having to open each file individually and count the words by selecting the ...
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Make isearch commands search only at the beginning of words
How to make C-s (isearch-forward) and C-r (isearch-backward) search only for words that start with the argument passed to them, instead of searching for the argument even if it's in the middle of a ...
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How to convert paragraph into the line?
I've need a function which convert a paragraph into the line, sort each space separated set of characters and fill it back to paragraph.
In:
Supposedly there are over one million words in the ...
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Find and remove consecutive duplicated words while ignoring case
I am trying to find and remove duplicated words in a LaTeX file.
Right now I am using query-replace-regexp with the regular expression
\b\(\w+\)[ #]+\1 where # stands for line-break (C-q C-j). This ...
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English dictionary IPA or/and sound
I was wondering if one can look-up English words in Emacs from an English dictionary that includes IPA or plays a sound. I am using define-word.el package, which is very good but doesn't have IPA.
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how to make emacs think semicolon and brackets are words?
i've came on emacs from Sublime Text, and there ;[]{}()., etc are counts as word, and when you move in your document with Ctrl+Arrow you never skip these characters. I want make emacs recognize all ...
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Split line every n characters
I have a long binary string that I would like to split every 32 characters. Is there a command that can do this for me?
I have tried word wrapping, but it splits per word. It has no effect since a ...
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What is the best way to search forward/backward for a token?
Sometimes I want to search for a specific word but I don't want to find words which have my search string as a substring.
For example, if I search for "pan" (bread, in Spanish), I don't want to find ...
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Best way to select a word
I want to select current word under the cursor without using mouse.
After searching this forum, I learned how double click works.
(I noticed that it is a bit complicated and there were no direct key ...
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Replace whole words in string
replace-string has the DELIMITED parameter, which can be used to replace only whole words. replace-in-string does not have such a parameter. Is there an easy work-around besides creating a temporary ...
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Setting syntax table leads to high CPU load
I want to set - as a word character for all reStructuredText files. In order to do this, I acted according to the wiki and added the following to my .emacs file:
(require 'misc)
(defvar my-...
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backward-kill-word kills too much, how to make it more intelligent?
I'm looking for a way to reduce what Emacs kills when I use backward-kill-word.
protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
if (PropertyChanged != null)
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Fast/efficient way to keep a running word count
I am trying to implement a minor mode that displays in the modeline the current word count and the number of new words since the file was last opened.
There are some existing implementations with ...
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How to show word diffs in Magit? [duplicate]
Some people put one sentence or even one paragraph on one line. When someone fixes a spelling error in such a line it is difficult to spot the change in Magit log. How can I toggle Magit log to show ...
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Get word at point
It's a simple thing. My cursor is over a word and I want to get the word so that I can do something with it. I see a few different ways to do this but want to avoid reinvention and use a standard ...
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Word boundaries in mixed-alphabet words [duplicate]
By default (e.g., in fundamental mode), emacs seems to treat the sequence of characters abcαβγ in a buffer as two separate words. In particular, a command like M-f done at the beginning will only move ...
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Toggle letter case -- exclude custom words from a list
Xah Lee wrote (some time ago) the following function that toggles the letter-case of the selected region or the current word. When toggling to initial caps, some words should not be capitalized such ...
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Is there a way to set arbitrary characters as the word boundary?
I know I can do this kind of thing with the sentence boundary, using (setq sentence-end "[regexp]"), but how can I do this with the word boundary?
I'd like to add capital letters to the default word ...
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How to match only a word when using `re-search-backward` function
I want to replace a character inside a word, so I wrote:
(setq regexp "[ab]")
(and (re-search-backward regexp nil t 1)
(replace-match "c"))
This replaces a or b to c as I wish, but I want to ...
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Make forward-word not to jump over newline character
I have a text like this,
testStatus['id'] = elt.$.id^^''&&&&
testStatus$$['suite_id'] = ""
where ^^ is my cursor position. When I press M-f, it uses forward-word and end up in the ...
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How to go to the beginning of a word/sexp?
When the point is not at the beginning of a word/sexp, backward-word / backward-sexp places the cursor at the beginning of that word/sexp. If the point is already at the beginning of a word/sexp, this ...
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