Subject: bug#7375: 23.1; Emacs does not have a word count feature

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:29:56 -0500

Matt Lee wrote:

> I would expect to be able to do M-x word-count-region and have it return
> the number of words in the buffer or selection.

Perhaps we could install this version

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-09/msg01029.html