Re: Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Christopher J. White wrote:

> > > > > > "chris" == Christian Seberino <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> writes:
>
> chris> I just wanted a function that returned the line number of
> chris> current point that I could use anywhere.
>
> How about (what-line)?

As its doc string says, it prints the line number (and more) in the echo

area.  Better is (count-lines (point-min) (point)), which actually returns
a number.  And if you want to ignore any narrowing that may be in effect,
you need to do

(save-restriction
  (widen)
  (count-lines (point-min) (point)))

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Kevin Rodgers