From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7375: 23.1; Emacs does not have a word count feature Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:47:30 -0500 Organization: Free Software Foundation Message-ID: <4CDBF3F2.7050303@fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289484855 31899 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 14:14:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:14:15 +0000 (UTC) To: 7375@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 15:14:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGXuj-00041J-Vl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:14:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGXuj-0001HS-Br for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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I feel like this should be integrated. I would expect to be able to do M-x word-count-region and have it return the number of words in the buffer or selection. --- Matt Lee Campaigns Manager Free Software Foundation