How to count the number of lines in the region?

Question

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, Mar 20 '18 at 01:37

score 24 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 19 '18 at 23:34

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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.)

edited Mar 19 '18 at 23:34

Basil

answered Mar 19 '18 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? – PierreE Jan 02 '19 at 00:42
some good examples in: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WordCount – manandearth Jan 02 '19 at 08:37

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 17 '20 at 02:01

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

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

edited Jan 17 '20 at 02:01

Dan

answered Jan 16 '20 at 22:29

Sebastian G.

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