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Jesper Harder wrote:

> David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> How do I do a word count in Emacs?
> 
> `M-| wc -w'


That is an elegant solution. This after I slipped some Lisp code I found on 
the web into my .emacs file.

It's coming out now.

I need to think a little more about the M-| command.

Thanks.

--Rod

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