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Re: Word count in Emacs
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B. T. Raven |
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Re: Word count in Emacs |
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Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:23:25 -0500 |
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> M-x count- TAB
Using this I just find my own function. I think I looked at C-h f count
tab before defining this. Am I masking an original count-words function
in ver. 23.3?
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> or
>
> M-= (does exactly what you are trying to do here, I suppose)
That is count-lines-regions, returning no. of lines and chars, not words
unless it's been enhanced in ver. 24
Thanks, anyway
Ed
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> "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net> writes:
>
>> Can anyone give me a clue why the following doesn't print a number in
>> the mini-buffer or to the *Messages* buffer?:
>>
>> (defun count-words (start end) ;; alias wce
>> "Print number of words in the region."
>> (interactive "r")
>> (save-excursion
>> (save-restriction
>> (narrow-to-region start end)
>> (goto-char (point-min))
>> (count-matches "\\sw+"))))
>>
>> an alias is assigned so that I can invoke with
>>
>> M-x wce (word count emacs)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ed
>>
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- Word count in Emacs, B. T. Raven, 2012/09/14
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