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Repetition and regular expression searches are powerful tools that you often
use when you write code in Emacs Lisp. This chapter illustrates the use of
regular expression searches through the construction of word count commands
using while loops and recursion.
| • Why Count Words | ||
| • count-words-example | Use a regexp, but find a problem. | |
| • recursive-count-words | Start with case of no words in region. | |
| • Counting Exercise |