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Counting words
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   The standard Emacs distribution contains a function for counting the
number of lines within a region.  However, there is no corresponding
function for counting words.

   Certain types of writing ask you to count words.  Thus, if you write
an essay, you may be limited to 800 words; if you write a novel, you
may discipline yourself to write 1000 words a day.  It seems odd to me
that Emacs lacks a word count command.  Perhaps people use Emacs mostly
for code or types of documentation that do not require word counts; or
perhaps they restrict themselves to the operating system word count
command, `wc'.  Alternatively, people may follow the publishers'
convention and compute a word count by dividing the number of
characters in a document by five.  In any event, here are commands to
count words.


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