From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: counting chars in buffer Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:53:39 +0200 Message-ID: <86wp8h6nrg.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497293668 21461 195.159.176.226 (12 Jun 2017 18:54:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:54:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 12 20:54:17 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKUTg-0004yS-UT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:54:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKUTm-00031D-Cq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKUTJ-000310-7d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKUTF-0007vq-5o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44138 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKUTE-0007vK-Vd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKUT6-00039m-NN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:53:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZaidIKu5jp+sp/PXCttDJqlszn8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113432 Archived-At: How would one do that? Using 'wc -c' on the file isn't allowed as I've heard some systems (?) don't come with that. Here are two suggestions: (require 'cl-lib) (defun count-chars () (interactive) (save-excursion (let ((start (point-min)) (end (point-max)) (chars 0) ) (goto-char start) (while (< (point) end) (forward-char) (cl-incf chars) ) chars) )) ;; (count-chars) (defun count-chars-2 () (interactive) (length (buffer-string) )) ;; (count-chars-2) One could also do a DWIM function which acts on the region if there, otherwise the whole buffer... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573