From: deech <aditya.siram@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Using Emacs' help system
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:27:52 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf8f4787-1987-41d6-8566-59417c5fbe3f@googlegroups.com> (raw)
Hi all,
I'm making a more concerted attempt to use the Emacs help system but ran into a case where I was forced to use Google.
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?
-deech
next reply other threads:[~2013-02-10 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-10 22:27 deech [this message]
2013-02-10 23:02 ` Using Emacs' help system Dan Espen
2013-02-10 23:13 ` Chris F.A. Johnson
2013-02-10 23:48 ` Aidan Gauland
2013-02-11 0:31 ` Dan Espen
2013-02-11 0:48 ` Aidan Gauland
2013-02-11 1:41 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.19549.1360546899.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-11 3:34 ` Barry Margolin
2013-02-11 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-11 2:58 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-11 4:40 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-11 4:50 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-11 4:59 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-11 7:09 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-11 9:27 ` Jambunathan K
2013-02-11 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-16 21:50 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
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