Rework count-words-region. New command count-words.

See discussion at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-10/msg00193.html

* lisp/simple.el (count-words-region): Always count in the region.
Report the number of lines and characters too.
(count-words): New command, which counts in the buffer if the
region is inactive, as count-words-region used to.
(count-words--message): New function.  Handle plurals.
(count-lines-region): Make it an alias for count-words-region.

* lisp/bindings.el (esc-map): Replace count-lines-region with
count-words-region.

* doc/emacs/basic.texi (Position Info): Omit page commands.  Document
count-words-region and count-words.

* doc/emacs/text.texi (Pages): Move what-page documentation here.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 41870bf53cc..e3453b3a92f 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -455,7 +455,10 @@ isearch-yank-kill.
 *** M-s C-e in Isearch is now bound to isearch-yank-line.
 
 +++
-** New command `count-words-region'.  This does what you expect.
+** New commands `count-words-region' and `count-words'.
+
+*** `count-lines-region' is now an alias for `count-words-region',
+bound to M-=, which shows the number of lines, words, and characters.
 
 ** The default value of `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' is now t.