The Simple Solution: Counting Words on Demand1. Select a region. 2. Run M-=, or M-| wc for older versions of emacs. 3. See the count of lines, words, and characters, in the mode-line. Show the number of words in the mode-lineThe minor mode ‘word-count-mode’ displays the number of words in the current buffer. It is quite handy: http://taiyaki.org/elisp/word-count/src/word-count.el (down on Nov. 1,