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From: steve g <Sgonedes1977@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs native compiled functions
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:20:04 -0400, steve g wrote:


> Clue: I mentioned “stripping all the markup”.


Yes, I read that. So you have a document with no tags; have you tried wc ?

>>
>> have you tried wc -w ?
>
> Yes, that is even worse than your idea. Which is saying something.

Dunno. wc (1)

DESCRIPTION
       Print  newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
       more than one FILE is specified.  A word is a nonempty sequence  of  non
       white  space  delimited  by white space characters or by start or end of
       input.

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always
       in the following order: newline, word,  character,  byte,  maximum  line
       length.



wc (1) seems to do the job very well. I just tried wc and count-words
again on a text file and got the same exact results.