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Re: creating a function that works for active region or whole buffer


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: creating a function that works for active region or whole buffer
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:02:10 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>           (setq current-block-start-line (line-number-at-pos
> (region-beginning) )
>                 current-block-end-line   (line-number-at-pos (region-end) ) )
>         ;;  ...else use the whole buffer
>         (setq current-block-start-line (line-number-at-pos (point-min) )
>               current-block-end-line   (line-number-at-pos (point-max) ) ) )

goto-line and line-number-at-pos are expensive operations that count
(and re-count and re-re-count every time) the number of LF chars from
the beginning of the buffer.


        Stefan




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