From: rfcoder89 <rfcoder89@gmail.com>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: word count
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:43:35 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34207162.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343156114.44657.YahooMailNeo@web163104.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
The new emacs 24 has a built-in function called "count-words". If your still
on a previous version then you could always roll out your own, simply
save-excursion, jump to beginning of the buffer, enter a loop to
forward-word until you reach the end of the buffer and increment a counter.
Bugzilla from enda_k2@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Is there a word count function within Emacs?, or will I stick with
>
> M-! wc -w file
>
>
> - Enda
>
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2012-07-24 18:55 word count Enda
2012-07-24 19:02 ` Jai Dayal
2012-07-24 20:43 ` rfcoder89 [this message]
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