Re: Character repeation detection

[Tom]

Tom <adatgyujto <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > > Is there an existing solution for this?
> > 
> >     M-s h r \(.\)\1 RET
> > 
> >     (highlight-regexp "\\(.\\)\\1" (quote highlight))
> > 
> 
> I'm not talking about highlighting. I'd like an actual function
> call when this happens.
> 

And I don't mean 3 or more of the same character in the buffer
somewhere. I'm interested in detecting  when the user types
3 or more of the same character in a row.