Re: Most used words in current buffer

[Udyant Wig]

On 07/22/2018 09:30 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Actually I think alternating `forward-word' with `forward-to-word'
> might do the exact same thing as alternating (skip-syntax-forward "w")
> with (skip-syntax-forward "^w"), and might get you some
> extra... stuff. Maybe worth benchmarking!

I did.  I had to load the `misc' package to use `forward-to-word'.  A
ten run timing session gave an average of 4.89 seconds on the 4.5 MB
text file: more than twice as much time as the version of the code using
`skip-syntax-forward'.

Udyant Wig
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