charcount - lite-xl plugin

lite-xl plugin to display characters, newlines and total counts of a document and selections.

Quick installation

• Download or clone the repository and copy the file charcount.lua to the lite-xl plugin folder to: lite-xl/plugins/.

In case of questions, refer to the "lite-xl plugin installation guide".

Usage

The plugin should work out-of-box after copying the file charcount.lua to the plugin directory.

If everything is setup, you should see the following informations in the status bar of lite-xl:

XX characters | XX newlines | XX total

What is counted?

• characters - everything what is not a newline character, in this case \n
• newlines - are displayed separately.
• total - sum of characters and newlines

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Example screenshots

Updated screenshot with new statistics

Old screenshots with old display, for historical reasons

No selection - Displays the count of all characters and newlines of the current document

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Single selection - Displays characters of the current selection

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Multiple selections - Display characters of all selections

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Ranged selection, here with newlines too

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Only newlines are also displayed