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From: ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: count words region
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Date: 14 Mar 91 08:57:41 GMT
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jj@medulla.cis.ohio-state.edu (John Josephson) writes:

>Has anyone written a count-words-region command?  I'm sure I'm not the
>only one who would find it very useful.  Thanks, .. jj

Simply : 
		1. mark the region you want to count.
		2. M-|
		3. "Shell command on region :" wc -w <response to prompt in
							quotes>
You could obviously collect this up into a named macro and bind a key to it
if desired.

Eoin.
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