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@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ A gedit plugin which adds a Label to the status bar with the active documents wo
Installation
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- 1. Copy `wordcount.plugin` and `wordcount.py` to `~/.local/share/gedit/plugins`
- 2. Activate it from gedit's plugins dialogue.
+ 1. Create folder `~/.local/share/gedit/plugins` if it does not exist.
+ 2. Copy `wordcount.plugin` and `wordcount.py` to `~/.local/share/gedit/plugins`
+ 3. Activate it from gedit's plugins dialogue.
## Licences
gedit status bar word count plugin is made available under a [GPL3