[kde-linux] Counting words in Kate

[Andrew Walbran]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 9:47 pm, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> On 11/04/06, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a big plain file of text and I would like to count the words in
> > a certain section of the document. Is it possible to select a region
> > and count the words in it? It is certainly easiear than copying to a
> > new file and counting through terminal with wc -l. Any suggestions?
>
> I meant wc -w, of course.
One possibility:

Go Settings->Configure Kate->Application->External tools.
Click New..., enter 'Count selected words' for the title and the following for 
script:

COUNT=$(echo "%selection" | wc -w)
kdialog --title "Word count" --msgbox "$COUNT words are selected."

Choose an icon if you like, then press OK twice.
Now you can use Tools->External Tools->Count selected words on the menu.


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Andrew Walbran
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