How to count the number of lines in the region?

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Is there a command similar to count-words-region to count the total number of lines of a selected region?

"The count-words-region command, when called interactively, reports the number of lines, words, and characters in the region. It is a superset of the old count-lines-region, which is now an obsolete alias for it." -- NEWS.24 — phils, Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 1:37

Basil · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-19 23:34:18Z

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M-= (command count-words-region).

(The region does not even need to be activated, but activating it lets you see it.)

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answered Mar 19, 2018 at 18:15

manandearth

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How do you get the number of lines from this command? It's displayed but how do you get it in a variable?
– pierolefou
Commented Jan 2, 2019 at 0:42
some good examples in: emacswiki.org/emacs/WordCount
– manandearth
Commented Jan 2, 2019 at 8:37

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Dan · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-17 02:01:25Z

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Count lines does the trick, it is defined in simple.el

(count-lines (point-min) (point-max))

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answered Jan 16, 2020 at 22:29

Sebastian G.

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