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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 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:14:48 -0400, steve g wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> For example, how would you deal with this, for counting words in an
>>> HTML page after stripping all the markup (from
>>> <https://gitlab.com/ldo/emacs-prefs>):
>>
>> M-x count-words
>
> Tried it on a test HTML file I had handy.
>
> M-x count words reports a count of 10370.
> My code reports a count of 9564.

Not to be an asshole, but I can be; what do you mean by words? Usually
counting spaces does not qualify.

> Solving the wrong problem, much?

always!

have you tried wc -w ? I get the same result from wc -l and count-lines.
and the same result from wc -w from count-words. Most people do not
consider a words less than 3 letters or sum such.