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gedit-statusbar-wordcount-plugin
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- Forked from: --> https://github.com/footley/gedit-wordcount-plugin
+ Hard forked from: --> https://github.com/footley/gedit-wordcount-plugin and made updates and improvements.
- 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]+)*"`.
+ A gedit plugin which adds a label to the status bar with the active document's word and character count, where a word is defined as `r"[a-zA-Z0-9]+(?:[-'][a-zA-Z0-9]+)*"`.
Installation
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