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Re: word count


From: rfcoder89
Subject: Re: word count
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:43:35 -0700 (PDT)

The new emacs 24 has a built-in function called "count-words". If your still
on a previous version then you could always roll out your own, simply
save-excursion, jump to beginning of the buffer, enter a loop to
forward-word until you reach the end of the buffer and increment a counter.


Bugzilla from enda_k2@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> Is there a word count function within Emacs?, or will I stick with
> 
> M-! wc -w file
> 
> 
> - Enda
> 

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