TextFX and word count

Brigham Narins

First of all, I just noticed that the TextFX plugin is gone, as though I removed it, but I didn’t. And it isn’t listed among the available titles in the Plugin Admin. Did I miss something in that last few days?

The two main features I used in TextFX:

Word count, particularly the ability to report the number of words in selected text
Line sorting that eliminates duplicates

Are these things available in other plugins?

PeterJones

@Brigham-Narins ,

See this FAQ

Brigham Narins

@PeterJones Thanks. I know about the View > Summary for whole-file word counts, but it doesn’t count the words in selected text. If you know how to do that, or know of another plugin that does it, I’d appreciate it.

Alan Kilborn

@Brigham-Narins

Simple Pythonscript, called WordCountInSelectedText.py:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import print_function

from Npp import *
import inspect
import os

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

class WCIST(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.this_script_name = inspect.getframeinfo(inspect.currentframe()).filename.split(os.sep)[-1].rsplit('.', 1)[0]
        self.total = 0
        def match_found(m): self.total += 1
        editor.research(r'\w+', match_found, 0, editor.getSelectionStart(), editor.getSelectionEnd())
        self.mb('Words in selected text = {}'.format(self.total))

    def mb(self, msg, flags=0, title=''):  # a message-box function
        return notepad.messageBox(msg, title if title else self.this_script_name, flags)

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if __name__ == '__main__': WCIST()

Brigham Narins

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you! Running such a script is something I’ve never done in NPP. Can you point me to a section of the manual or give me simple instructions?

PeterJones

@Brigham-Narins ,

Running such a script is something I’ve never done

We have a FAQ on that

Brigham Narins

@PeterJones @Alan-Kilborn Thank you both

Alan Kilborn

Of course, it is arguably even easier to just set up a search and press the Count button in the Find window, like this:

The result is shown in the status bar of the Find window.

This can be macro-recorded for easy running; the downside is that to see the result, the Find window has to be open.

Alan Kilborn

There’s also a way to put a selection’s word-count in the status bar; see HERE for that.