Function: count-lines-region

count-lines-region is a and interactive for count-words-region, defined in simple.el.gz.

This command is obsolete since 24.1; use count-words-region instead.

Signature

(count-lines-region START END &optional ARG)

Documentation

Count the number of words in the region.

If called interactively, print a message reporting the number of lines, words, and characters in the region (whether or not the region is active); with prefix ARG, report for the entire buffer rather than the region.

If called from Lisp, return the number of words between positions START and END.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.1.

Key Bindings

Aliases

count-lines-region (obsolete since 24.1)