Re: Using Emacs' help system

[Jambunathan K]

deech <aditya.siram@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> I'm making a more concerted attempt to use the Emacs help system but
> ran into a case where I was forced to use Google.
>
> 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?

Three methods

C-h d count


C-h r
i count


C-h r
M-x icomplete-mode RET
I count

> -deech
>

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