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Forked from: --> https://github.com/footley/gedit-wordcount-plugin
- A gedit plugin which adds a Label to the status bar with the active documents word count, where a word is defined as `r"[a-zA-Z0-9]+[a-zA-Z0-9\-']*\s?"`.
+ A gedit plugin which adds a Label to the status bar with the active documents word count, where a word is defined as `r"[a-zA-Z0-9]+(?:[-'][a-zA-Z0-9]+)*"`.
Installation
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