Count characters in emacs?

Count characters in emacs?

[Big Slim]

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.

TIA--Big Slim

Re: Count characters in emacs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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).

Re: Count characters in emacs?

[Francesco Scaglioni]

I have this is what I call misc.el which gets loaded at run time --
relies on the aforementioned WC but works fine with M-x wc return.  I
did not write this myself but cannnot remember where I cribbed it from
( all credit goes to whoever it was ).

Cheers

F

;; WORD COUNT
(defun wc ()
"Count the words in the current buffer, show the result in the
 minibuffer"
 (interactive)
 (save-excursion 
 (save-restriction
 (widen)
 (goto-char (point-min))
 (let ((count 0))
 (while (forward-word 1)
  (setq count(1+ count)))
(message "There are %d words in the buffer" count)))))

Re: Count characters in emacs?

[Aaron Son]

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.

--Aaron

Re: Count characters in emacs?

[Big Slim]

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

Re: Count characters in emacs?

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Big" == Big Slim <skinny@bones.com> writes:
> Wow! Me likey! Wonder why I couldn't find that in my O'Reilly book?

It's a sign from The Almighty(tm) that you should read the manual instead.

	C-h i m emacs RET


-- Stefan

Re: Count characters in emacs?

[Big Slim]

In article <5lfzqcoy90.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>, Stefan Monnier
<monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> wrote:

> >>>>> "Big" == Big Slim <skinny@bones.com> writes:
> > Wow! Me likey! Wonder why I couldn't find that in my O'Reilly book?
> 
> It's a sign from The Almighty(tm) that you should read the manual instead.
> 
>  C-h i m emacs RET

Hilarious, but I can't find it there, either.

Re: Count characters in emacs?

[Kai Großjohann]

Big Slim <skinny@bones.com> writes:

> In article <5lfzqcoy90.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>, Stefan Monnier
> <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "Big" == Big Slim <skinny@bones.com> writes:
>> > Wow! Me likey! Wonder why I couldn't find that in my O'Reilly book?
>> 
>> It's a sign from The Almighty(tm) that you should read the manual instead.
>> 
>>  C-h i m emacs RET
>
> Hilarious, but I can't find it there, either.

What did you want to find?  What did you search for to find it?
Maybe the manual can be improved to make it easier to find things.

I also recomment the `i' key for searching the index.
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.

Re: Count characters in emacs?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Big Slim <skinny@bones.com> writes:
> > 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...


Also better than a book:

     M-x apropos RET count RET


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__Pascal_Bourguignon__                   http://www.informatimago.com/
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