On 2016-11-07 17:27, Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> I'd like to get a "Sorry" message for (1). Easy, if only I know how to
> count lines in strings (as opposed to buffers).

You could start by doing (split-string the_string "\n" t) (the last 't'
says to omit the empty strings). So you get a list, possibly empty, of
strings.

Would this help for the rest?

Alan

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