From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get count of a specific character Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:44:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87bnynued6.fsf@yahoo.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391525079 7345 80.91.229.3 (4 Feb 2014 14:44:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Angus Comber Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 04 15:44:46 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 1WAhEz-00067y-LR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:44:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAhEz-0005W6-Au for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAhEj-0005VM-7c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:44:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAhEb-000683-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:44:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:50819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAhEb-00067q-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:44:21 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap8EAEz88FKkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABZwjKBIXSCJQEBBAF5BQsIAyElDwEEDTwTh3ABAwkIrSKWbgFKDYkzF4dwhHCCFQeEOASWP4FshjGGLYVDgy47 Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 04 Feb 2014 15:44:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Angus Comber's message of "Tue, 4 Feb 2014 06:29:35 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 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:95900 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? > highlight region and: M-x count-matches RET ; RET -- Nico.