emacs live wordcount

nospam@example.com (Jasper Spaans) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:54:03 +0200

Just a quicky: to get a word count estimate while working on a text in Emacs, use the emacs word-count package. You can find it at http://taiyaki.org/elisp/word-count/src/word-count.el. Beware, as it slows down working on you Emacs when it is active while editing.

It contains built-in support for working with HTML and LaTeX docments though, so your %comments and <tags> are not counted. It does inflate the word count though, as for example the line

\begin{figue}[hbf]

is counted as 3 words, whereas it outputs none.

Forcing Carbon Emacs to use MacPorts aspell

nospam@example.com (Jasper Spaans) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:02:48 +0200

If you want Carbon Emacs and aspell from MacPorts to cooperate, you'll have to jump through some hoops. This is because Carbon Emacs tries to be way too smart, by including options to automatically download extra dictionaries. However, it doesn't supply that for my own language, Dutch. Luckily, MacPorts contains a package providing that dictionary, but accessing that was somewhat cumbersome.

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