Show count of occurrences of a selected string

bob bob

Hello,
I’d like to know the number of occurence of a word
(When you double click on a word or select a specfic string) updated in real time and shown in the information bar (like sel, Ln, Col,…).
The ctrl+f + count option allows you to count but it is too many operations.

Can I design a plugin to achieve this purpose ?

Thanks !

Bob

Scott Sumner

@bob-bob

You could do a plugin to get this behavior, or you could script it. Here’s an example (may not be fully rounded out) in Pythonscript, I call it SelectedTextCountIntoStatusBar.py; you would run it once per Notepad++ session:

def callback_sci_UPDATEUI(args):
    if args['updated'] & UPDATE.SELECTION:
        matches = []
        if editor.getTextLength() < 100000:  # don't search "big" files
            if editor.getSelections() == 1 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
                try:
                    editor.research(r'\Q' + editor.getSelText() + r'\E', lambda m: matches.append(1))
                except:
                    matches = []
        l = len(matches)
        notepad.setStatusBar(STATUSBARSECTION.DOCTYPE, ' ' if l == 0 else '{} occurrence(s) of selected text'.format(l))

editor.callback(callback_sci_UPDATEUI, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.UPDATEUI])