Re: Rethinking count-words-region

[Juri Linkov]

> In the past, M-= ignored `mark-even-if-inactive' even though it was
> working with the region, so arguably the new behavior is more correct.
> It doesn't seem clean to make an exception for this particular usage of
> the inactive mark, but not others.

Yes, this is a general problem, e.g. I can't use
`M-|' (`shell-command-on-region') on the whole buffer when
there is no active region.  This could be improved in 24.2.