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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Count words under subtrees
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:15:00 +0100
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On Tuesday, 27 Sep 2016 at 09:01, Giacomo M wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> right now I manually =er/expand-region= (from expand-region.el) until I 
> select a subtree, and then =count-words-region= to get number of words 
> for the subtree. I was wondering whether anybody already coded some lisp 
> to programmatically have this count, ideally one count per TOC entry 
> (and perhaps excluding headline words in the count).

Cannot help you directly although this topic has come up before on this
list.

However, I can point you to C-c @ (org-mark-subtree) as a quick way to
select the whole subtree which at least makes the process a little less
painful.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.1.50.1, Org release_8.3.6-1149-g582233