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

From: Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:26:00 +0100

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Bastien <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> The buffer function forgots to widen.
>
> No need to widen a region narrowed to (point-min) and (point-max)?

Those return the min/max of the narrowed buffer.

Another option than widening is just changing the doc string of
count-words-buffer.