RE: [External] : Re: Making a regex string that matches (

[Drew Adams]

> Have come up with the following function.  Would this be enough to
> count the number oy opening parantheses in a region ?
> 
> (defun bracketing-count (region-start region-end)
>   "Counts opening and closing bracketing marks.
> Interactive functions enable them to be called using `M-x`"
>   (interactive "r")  ; gets region start and end
>   (message "Counting bracketing marks ...")
>   (save-excursion
>     (let (count)
>       (setq count 0)
>       (goto-char region-start)
>       (while (and (< (point) region-end)
>                       (search-forward "\(" region-end t))
>         (setq count (1+ count))) ))))

1. You can just use function `count-matches', with "("
   as the regexp.

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/70870/105

2. (let (count) (setq count 0)...)
->
   (let ((count  0)...)

3. (search-forward "(" ...)  ; You don't need "\(".

4. If your user uses your command, s?he sees only the
   message "Counting bracketing marks...".  She likely
   would like to see the count at the end, no?