From: Big Slim <skinny@bones.com>
Subject: Re: Count characters in emacs?
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:21:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <250220031421387958%skinny@bones.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uadgk3zhj.fsf@uiuc.edu.invalid
In article <uadgk3zhj.fsf@uiuc.edu.invalid>, Aaron Son
<aaronson@uiuc.edu.invalid> wrote:
> Big Slim <skinny@bones.com> writes:
>
> > Anyone know if it's possible to count the number of characters in a
> > file with emacs? I'm trying to rely less on Word, but that's one
> > feature I can't seem to find in emacs. Alternately, a shell command
> > would be nice.
>
> Answer from the nice people in #emacs on irc.freenode.net:
>
> If you're not using narrowing, it looks like C-= will do it.
>
> If you are using narrowing, use C-x h to mark the whole buffer, and
> then M-= to count the number of lines and characters in the region.
> Note, this will destroy your point position, save it if ya need it.
Wow! Me likey! Wonder why I couldn't find that in my O'Reilly book?
I'll have to look again...
Thanks--Big Slim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-25 20:21 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
2003-02-26 11:09 ` Francesco Scaglioni
2003-02-25 19:57 ` Aaron Son
2003-02-25 20:21 ` Big Slim [this message]
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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