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gumby on Dec 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A few new things in Emacs 29

That's odd, as Emacs had this function long before being ported to C/elisp, i.e. over 40 years ago.

michaelhoffman on Dec 19, 2022 [–]

Over 40 years ago is definitely "at or before" Emacs 24.1. Specifically before.

As far as I can tell, the "probably introduced at or before" info comes from finding a symbol's first appearance in NEWS. So if there were no changes to `count-words` between Emacs 1 and 24, this is what you'd get.

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