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Re: Word count in Emacs
From: |
Jambunathan K |
Subject: |
Re: Word count in Emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:44:38 +0530 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
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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