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Statistics for Authors

Statistics for Authors

adamisrael

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590 installs
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Useful statistics for authors who write in Markdown.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Statistics for Authors

This is a Visual Studio Code extension aimed at authors who write in Markdown. Its intent is to provide useful statistics as you write via the status bar.

Features

  • Display the count of visible words (excluding comments)
  • Display the count of total words (including comments)
  • TODO: Display readability

Known Issues

None

Release Notes

1.0.1

  • Ignore Pandoc title block
  • Ignore YAML front matter
  • Ignore TOML front matter
  • Ignore JSON front matter

1.0.0

Initial release!

Credits

This is loosely based on the vscode-wordcount sample extention.

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