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    • bob bob
      bob bob last edited by

      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

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      • Scott Sumner
        Scott Sumner @bob bob last edited by

        @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])
        
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