Gedit Word Count

Hard forked from: --> https://github.com/footley/gedit-wordcount-plugin

A gedit plugin which adds a label to the status bar, showing the active document's word and character count.

Installation

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.

Changes from Original

• Added a character count
• More accurate regex for word boundaries
• Added debouncing (throttling) to reduce update frequency on fast edits
• Added multiple try/except blocks to prevent crashes
• Separate tracking of active document and connection ID
• Proper cleanup of timers and connections on deactivation
• Displays user-visible errors in the status bar on failure
• Counts are formatted with thousands separators

Licence

This project is made available under a GPL3 licence -- see COPYING for the full text.