A plugin for gedit that shows useful text statistics in the status bar.
Character Count: r"[\S]{1}"
Word Count: r"[\w-]+"
Sentence Count: r"[\w-]+[\.!?]+\s"
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meyersbs/gedit-text-stats/master/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
OR
cd ~/.local/share
mkdir gedit
cd gedit
mkdir plugins
cd plugins
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meyersbs/gedit-text-stats/master/textstats.plugin
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meyersbs/gedit-text-stats/master/textstats.py
Activate: Settings ➜ Preferences ➜ Plugins ➜ ☑ Textstats
Deactivate: Settings ➜ Preferences ➜ Plugins ➜ ❏ Textstats