From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aidan Gauland Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using Emacs' help system Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:48:33 +1300 Organization: Gnus News User Services Message-ID: <87obfr688e.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360542326 24758 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2013 00:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:25:26 +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 01:25:46 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 1U4hDN-00054a-LJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:25:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4hD4-0004LV-Fa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:25:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!news.klingenberg.no!quimby.gnus.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114-134-8-58.rurallink.co.nz Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1360540114 837 114.134.8.58 (10 Feb 2013 23:48:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:48:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pce94Mkz++AhiZdV3ZcHyoCxorU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196759 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:25:22 -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:89047 Archived-At: deech writes: > 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? I think this is a case of obscure naming. That function doesn't mention in its docstring that it returns a character count as well. –Aidan