From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using Emacs' help system Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:13:38 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <26mlu9-muv.ln1@cfa.johnson> References: Reply-To: cfajohnson@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360542337 24826 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2013 00:25:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:25:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 01:25:58 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U4hDZ-0005CC-QS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:25:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4hDG-0004kO-IM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:25:38 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3bcc0d29074c905279f7f772ea907a02"; logging-data="24764"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19VubLa3l5jiQOqoqslkr1Tyumxmt0ySSo=" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jwd4SBZ9bE4TZqE/CWp2log+w6s= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196758 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:25:34 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89048 Archived-At: On 2013-02-10, deech wrote: > Hi all, > I'm making a more concerted attempt to use the Emacs help system but ran into a case where I was forced to use Google. > > I wanted to get the character count in a region. At the `M-x apropos` prompt I tried all variations of `character`, `char`, `number` and `count` without results. A quick Google search showed that I needed `count-word-region`. My question is how could I have used the help system to get there? 'M-x apropos region' gives 'count-lines-region' as one of the possibilities. -- Chris F.A. Johnson Author: ======================= Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)