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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: Count characters in emacs?
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:55:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1438-Tue25Feb2003215529+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <250220031348399183%skinny@bones.com> (message from Big Slim on Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:48:39 -0600)

> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:48:39 -0600
> From: Big Slim <skinny@bones.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> 
> Anyone know if it's possible to count the number of characters in a
> file with emacs?

"C-x =" will show you this info.

> Alternately, a shell command would be nice.

That would be `wc' (assuiming you have it installed).

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-25 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-25 19:48 Count characters in emacs? Big Slim
2003-02-25 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-02-26 11:09   ` Francesco Scaglioni
2003-02-25 19:57 ` Aaron Son
2003-02-25 20:21   ` Big Slim
2003-02-25 21:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-25 23:58       ` Big Slim
2003-02-26  9:16         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-26 18:15     ` Pascal Bourguignon

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