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PyWordCount
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PyWordCount is an accurate, Unicode-aware [1]_, configurable word counting script. It is also a plugin for Vim that provides a "live" word count if added to the Vim statusline.
It's aimed at people who want precise word counts, not approximations. It's also aimed at Vim users.
Why
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``wc`` doesn't count Unicode characters properly; it also only splits on spaces, and that was insufficient for my purposes. For example:
This is five words—only.
``wc`` counts that as four words.
In addition, ``wc`` doesn't easily let you filter content. PyWordCount can support filters, for example to strip quoted lines out of emails, so that the following would count as five words:
> This is from the email being replied to
This is five words—only
How
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To run it on the command line,
To run it from Vim,
- put it in plugins
- map PyWordCount to something
- to put it in the statusline, do:
Who
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Tadhg O’Higgins
http://tadhg.com/
pywordcount@tadhg.com