Function: nroff-count-text-lines

nroff-count-text-lines is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in nroff-mode.el.gz.

Signature

(nroff-count-text-lines START END &optional PRINT)

Documentation

Count lines in region, except for nroff request lines.

All lines not starting with a period are counted up. Interactively, print result in echo area. Noninteractively, return number of non-request lines from START to END.

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Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/textmodes/nroff-mode.el.gz
(defun nroff-count-text-lines (start end &optional print)
  "Count lines in region, except for nroff request lines.
All lines not starting with a period are counted up.
Interactively, print result in echo area.
Noninteractively, return number of non-request lines from START to END."
  (interactive "r\np")
  (if print
      (message "Region has %d text lines" (nroff-count-text-lines start end))
    (save-excursion
      (save-restriction
	(narrow-to-region start end)
	(goto-char (point-min))
	(- (buffer-size) (nroff-forward-text-line (buffer-size)))))))