Re: Count words under subtrees

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Giacomo M <jackjackk@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

> right now I manually =er/expand-region= (from expand-region.el) until
> I select a subtree, and then =count-words-region= to get number of
> words for the subtree. I was wondering whether anybody already coded
> some lisp to programmatically have this count, ideally one count per
> TOC entry (and perhaps excluding headline words in the count).

AFAIK there are two libraries that show the "weight" of a folded subtree
based on hidden lines as little headline cookies - if that helps. Not
sure about their state, they might just work:

,----
| https://github.com/tj64/org-hlc
| https://github.com/pinard/org-weights
`----

and org-hlc is build into outshine, so if you open (e.g.) an elisp file
that is structured with outshine headers (= outcommented org-headers),
and have outshine minor-mode enabled, you can use

,----[ C-h f outshine-toggle-hidden-lines-cookies RET ]
| outshine-toggle-hidden-lines-cookies is an interactive Lisp function
| in `outshine.el'.
| 
| (outshine-toggle-hidden-lines-cookies)
| 
| Toggles status of hidden-lines cookies between shown and hidden.
`----

and will see something like this, i.e. folded headers with 'hidden lines
cookies':

,----
|      55:;; * Prerequisites
|      56:;; ** Start Message and Start Time [#8]
|      65:;; ** Setup Parts :mytag: [#79]
|     145:;; ** Environment [#92]
|     238:;; ** Loading Emacs Lisp Libraries
|     239:;; *** Features [#64]
|     304:;; *** Library Search [#144]
|     449:;; *** Package Manager [#39]
|     489:;; *** Autoloads [#5]
|     495:;; ** Debugging [#8]
|     504:;; * [Screen Input Keys Cmd Enter Exit] [#1]
|     506:;; ** 1 (info "(emacs)Screen") [#3]
|     510:;; *** 1.1 (info "(emacs)Point")
|     511:;; *** 1.2 (info "(emacs)Echo Area") [#4]
|     516:;; *** 1.3 (info "(emacs)Mode Line") [#4]
|     521:;; *** 1.4 (info "(emacs)Menu Bar") [#2]
`----


-- 
cheers,
Thorsten