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Re: Using Emacs' help system
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Aidan Gauland |
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Re: Using Emacs' help system |
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Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:48:33 +1300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
deech <aditya.siram@gmail.com> 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