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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
Cc: Karl Voit <news1142@Karl-Voit.at>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp: help on string operations for fast file visiting
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 09:42:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2oa1qtl9o.fsf@charm-wifi.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2016-11-07T17-24-53@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (Karl Voit's message of "Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:27:01 +0100")

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On 2016-11-07 17:27, Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> I'd like to get a "Sorry" message for (1). Easy, if only I know how to
> count lines in strings (as opposed to buffers).

You could start by doing (split-string the_string "\n" t) (the last 't'
says to omit the empty strings). So you get a list, possibly empty, of
strings.

Would this help for the rest?

Alan

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-08  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-07 16:27 Elisp: help on string operations for fast file visiting Karl Voit
2016-11-08  8:42 ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
2016-11-08  9:28   ` Karl Voit
2016-12-21  0:30 ` John Kitchin
2017-01-02 10:00 ` Fast Opening of Memacs Indexed Files (was: Elisp: help on string operations for fast file visiting) Karl Voit

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