From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get count of a specific character Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:48:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87bnynrl0y.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391525316 10498 80.91.229.3 (4 Feb 2014 14:48:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:48:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 04 15:48:43 2014 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 1WAhIo-00089b-PA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:48:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52861 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAhIo-0006eW-4f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:48:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAhIV-0006dY-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAhIO-0007ad-5d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:48:23 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAhIN-0007aX-Ut for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:48:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WAhIL-0007uL-W9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:48:13 +0100 Original-Received: from g231234235.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.234.235]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:48:13 +0100 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231234235.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:48:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231234235.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Frb36M3Lr1zS2gINjNQLXExUbsk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:95901 Archived-At: Angus Comber writes: > I have a buffer which is a massive long line of names followed by > semi-colon. I want to get a list of the number of names I have. I > can highlight the region and use wc to get count of words and divide > by 2 to get a rough measure. > > But it would be an easy task if I could simply get a count of the > number of semi-colon characters? > > Does anyone know a way to get this? Maybe ,------------------------------ | C-x h M-x count-matches RET ; `------------------------------ i.e. using `mark-whole-buffer' and 'count-matches'. -- cheers, Thorsten