Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.1) Installed from: SuSE RPMs As a student I have to write essays with a given word count. While kate offers many features I really like I'm missing the number of used words at the bottom bar of kate. Just a minor thing, but could be helpful to others too. I know that it is available in kdevelop which is also using kate. Couldn't that mean to share code if kate could do it? Regards, Norbert
http://wiki.kate-editor.org/index.php/Kate_Application_DCOP_Scripting
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 05:09, Matej Cepl wrote: > http://wiki.kate-editor.org/index.php/Kate_Application_DCOP_Scripting That wouldn't put it in the status bar. There are several other pieces of information that could be nice to see in the statusbar, but it could easily end up very crowded too. I wonder if offering some options would be nice, letting the user select what to see. -anders
So, I am afraid, that we are returning to my previous effort with abusing external tools. See this thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.kwrite/6888 for more info. Oh well. At least you can use something like [ -z "%selection" ] for counting words in all document / only in selection.
I tried this JavaScript function: wcCount = document.textFull().split(/[\s\n]+/).length; document.insertLine(0,wcCount+"\n"); but obviously document.insertLine is not the best way how to report number. Any better way?
On Sunday 19 February 2006 02:44, Matej Cepl wrote: > I tried this JavaScript function: > > wcCount = document.textFull().split(/[\s\n]+/).length; > document.insertLine(0,wcCount+"\n"); > > but obviously document.insertLine is not the best way how to report number. > Any better way? use wc(1) and external tools. Here is a simple configuration that works for local files: [externaltool_Wordcount] acname=externaltool_Wordcount cmdname= command=url=`echo %URL|sed -r 's,^\\w+\\:/+,/,'`\nkdialog --msgbox "Word count for\n%URL:\\n$(wc -lwm $url|sed - r 's,\\s*(\\w+)\\s+(\\w+)\\s+(\\w+).*,Lines: \\1\\nWords: \\2\\nCharacters: \\3,')"\n executable=wc icon= mimetypes= name=Word count save=1 If you don't like wc you can use whatever command (sed, perl) to do the calculations as you please.
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