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How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode?
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Pravles Redneсkoff |
Subject: |
How to detect words being added and removed to a buffer in a minor mode? |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:45:59 +0000 |
Hello!
I want to create a minor mode which allows you to see the number of words in a
buffer.
I want it to work in the following way:
1. User enters "M-x pwc-set-counter" and sets the word counter to a particular
number.
2. Whenever a word is added to a buffer, the word counter is incremented.
3. Whenever a word is removed from a buffer, the word counter is decremented.
4. As long as the minor mode is active, the value of the word counter is
visible in the mode line (same place where current row and column are shown in
some modes).
Restrictions:
1. This minor mode should work for text (Org mode) buffers with up to 3000
words (i. e. we are NOT talking gigabytes of text).
2. This minor mode must be compatible with the evil and Org mode.
How is the minor mode I want to develop different from existing solutions?
I want to be able to count words that I wrote on a particular day.
Imagine I have a goal of writing at least 1000 words per day. When I begin to
write on a new day, I reset the word counter to zero. Then I write in one
buffer and see the progress in the modeline. Then I may switch to a different
buffer (a different chapter), manually change the word counter and continue to
work.
What I want to implement is the word counter from Scrivener which shows you the
number of words you wrote today across different chapters. It also shows you a
visual representatio of the percentage of the daily quota.
As far as I know, none of the existing Emacs word counters offers this
functionality.
Questions:
1. How can I create an "event listener" (sorry for the non-Emacsian
terminology) which would be called whenever the user types something in the
buffer?
2. Are there existing functions that count the words in the current buffer
which I can reuse in my minor mode?
Thanks in advance
Pravles
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