See section Local Variables . See section Variables Controlling Display , for additional variables that affect how text is displayed. Here are commands to get information about the size and position of parts of the buffer , and to count lines. There are two commands for printing the current line number. See section The Mode Line .
Line numbers count from one at the beginning of the buffer .
See section Pages . See section Pages , for the command C-x l which counts the lines in the current page . The front of the buffer counts as position 1, one character later as 2, and so on. The next, larger number is the total number of characters in the buffer . Afterward in parentheses comes the position expressed as a percentage of the total size.