- This program is a emacs lisp program that finds a word duplication in your text.
One common mistake in my document is a word duplication. I think sometimes when you you write text, you also duplicate words like in this sentence. This is hard to find by a spell checker, since spelling is correct. Also, duplication is not always wrong. Once my colleague Alexander pointed me out, ``Why emacs does not have such a program to find it out. It is common mistake in a paper.''
Actually, gnu Emacs's document -- Emacs Lisp Intro -- has a section, The the-the function. This section explains exact the same problem and show how to write a regexp to find this out. In the document, this mistake is called as the-the problem.
The emacs document shows a nice solution. It is simple. The program has only 11 lines including comments and document. The author explains the solution is not perfect but sufficient. I also thought the solution is sufficient. However, when I start to use the function, I found next two problems.
- It can not search when only the case difference.
- You you have this case, the program in emacs lisp intro can not find this.
- It can not search a duplicate phrase.
- At least at least you need ... would not be found.
This program is extended version of `The the-the function' that can solve above two problems.
- Easiest one
- Append the the-the.el in your .emacs file, then restart your emacs.
- Nicer one
- Put the 'the-the.el' file in your load-path.
- Add the following lines in your .emacs.
;; find the-the pattern (autoload 'the-the-search-forward "the-the" nil t) (autoload 'the-the-region "the-the" nil t) (autoload 'the-the-buffer "the-the" nil t)
- Find word duplication in your buffer
- M-x the-the-buffer
- Find word duplication in selected region.
- (select a region)
- M-x the-the-region
- Find phrase duplication (two words, at least at least
pattern) in your buffer
- C-u 2 M-x the-the-buffer
- Alexander's answer.
Do you know a story about a barber who ordered a new signboard ``cut and shave''? When the signboard was ready, the barber asked to improve it a little by adding extra space between cut and and and and and shave.
- Martin's story (revised by Hitoshi).
People have own style, but I like a style to put spaces between a and and and and and and and b. (Referring next sentence.)
if(a&&b){...}