From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Count characters in emacs? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:16:36 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84isv7v1u3.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <250220031348399183%skinny@bones.com> <5lfzqcoy90.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <250220031758218144%skinny@bones.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046249667 4849 80.91.224.249 (26 Feb 2003 08:54:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18nxKb-0001Fm-00 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:54:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nxHR-00043A-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 03:51:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1046249394 56984652 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wYWMCHBM6TBTkATE2viDiV3Hb94= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110628 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7132 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7132 Big Slim writes: > In article <5lfzqcoy90.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>, Stefan Monnier > wrote: > >> >>>>> "Big" == Big Slim 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.