Re: Word count in Emacs

[Jambunathan K]

M-x count- TAB

or 

M-= (does exactly what you are trying to do here, I suppose)

"B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net> writes:

> Can anyone give me a clue why the following doesn't print a number in
> the mini-buffer or to the *Messages* buffer?:
>
> (defun count-words (start end) ;; alias wce
>     "Print number of words in the region."
>     (interactive "r")
>     (save-excursion
>       (save-restriction
>         (narrow-to-region start end)
>         (goto-char (point-min))
>         (count-matches "\\sw+"))))
>
> an alias is assigned so that I can invoke with
>
> M-x wce (word count emacs)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
>

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