From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: counting chars in buffer
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 02:16:03 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8VK-k72LmJORBbCZdr8-iSVXTdb4oivJ-Ls4MLG4KuPUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wp8h6nrg.fsf@zoho.com>
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
> How would one do that?
Interactively, M-= (count-words-region) displays region or buffer size
in characters as part of its output.
Programmatically, (buffer-size) is documented to return a character
count (as opposed to an octet count). Also, any positions are
specified in characters so you can just subtract them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-12 19:16 UTC|newest]
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2017-06-12 18:53 counting chars in buffer Emanuel Berg
2017-06-12 19:16 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2017-06-12 19:28 ` Emanuel Berg
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