Re: Rethinking count-words-region

[Chong Yidong]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> One problem: when I type `M-=', it fails with:
>
>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (mark-inactive)
>     call-interactively(count-words-region nil nil)
>
> That's because I customized `mark-even-if-inactive' to `nil'
> (to avoid its dangerous behavior when it's non-nil).

In the past, M-= ignored `mark-even-if-inactive' even though it was
working with the region, so arguably the new behavior is more correct.
It doesn't seem clean to make an exception for this particular usage of
the inactive mark, but not others.

Seems like what you want is `count-words', not `count-words-region'.