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Hi Sebastian,

Sebastian Tennant <seb@albert.vcisp.net> writes:
> What is wrong with this simple code, (taken directly from O'Reilly's
> Learning Gnu Emacs)?
> 
> 	(defun count-words-buffer ()
>         [...]
> 	(count-words-buffer)*
> 	
> [...]
>
> With point at * (above), C-j to evaluate achieves nothing.  Below is
> the backtrace buffer output.
>
> 	Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function
> count-words-buffer)

Well, you have two Lisp expressions here, the defun and the actual
function call.  Did you evaluate the defun expression first?  C-j only
evaluates one expression, the last one before the point.

so long, benny