Re: M-=

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

>>> I certainly use M-= on the region much more often than on the whole
>>> buffer. With transient-mark-mode switched off, I now find it rather
>>> painful. Especially combinations like M-h M-= (i.e., mark-paragraph
>>> followed by count-words-region) no longer work.
>
>> You could do C-SPC C-SPC M-h M-= to enable ttm just for that command.
>
> That doesn't work: M-h marks the whole paragraph, whereas C-SPC C-SPC
> M-h only marks from point to end of paragraph.

Indeed, I tested that while point was at the beginning of a paragraph,
so that didn't make a difference.  But this works:

  M-h C-u C-x C-x M-=

Ok, probably not /that/ convenient, but how often do you check the
wordcount of a paragraph?

Bye,
Tassilo