Feature request: Word count

[masterrite]

Hi - is there a way to se how many words there are in a text document? Can I request this feature to be added, please? Thanks.

[masterrite]

Maybe like Notepad++'s "Summary" ? 🤔

Yes, a feature like that would be great. Thanks.

[RaiKoHoff]

Using Search (RegEx '\w+', Mark Occ.) or (not RegEx '*', wildcard, Mark Occ., match whole word only)

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[masterrite]

Using Search (RegEx '\w+', Mark Occ.) or (not RegEx '*', wildcard, Mark Occ., match whole word only)

That does help, thanks! But I think having a dedicated button for a summary or a word count in the status bar would be more convenient. Thanks again!

[masterrite]

Also, searching for \w+ and * seems to not count conjunctions like "it's" and hyphenated words "two-week-long" "y-you" as a single word. This doesn't seem to be the case in other processors like word or ghostwriter.

[hpwamr]

searching for \w+ and * seems to not count conjunctions like "it's" and hyphenated words

As workaround, a simple solution is to replace all ' and - by "(nothing)" before counting the words. 🤔

[RaiKoHoff]

Using the RegEx:

\w stands for "word character", usually [A-Za-z0-9_] - so also numbers und underscore.

For your purpose, you may flexible extend the RegEx: use [\w'-]+ instead - add word-chars you also want to be recognized.

Notepad3 identifies itself as a source-code editor and not as a word-processor, even if a source-code editor shares some aspects of word-processing. For a source-code editor, a summary of word statistics is of no mean to a developer.