[PLUG] A useful emacs function: wc emulation

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:

> I've asked quite a few emacs questions here and the answers have 
> always been helpful. Recently I learned that emacs can do the same 
> thing as the wc tool: report the number of lines, words, and 
> characters in the buffer. So I offer the solution for those even 
> less knowledgeable than I on emacs capabilities.
>
> Highlight the document (or portion of interest) by setting the mark 
> (ctrl-spacebar here), navigate to the end of the block to be 
> reported, and press M-= (here the Meta key is the Esc key).
>
> Hope that someone, sometime finds this useful, too.

In vim, to check the entire document:

:%!wc
u

The trailing 'u' is to undo the change. :-)

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