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Instant Count
Instantly count highlighted text, words, or fully-custom patterns – with live gutter badges, status-bar feedback, and one-click configuration.
✨ At a Glance
Feature
What it does
Real-time Counter Status-bar number updates as you type or select
Numbered Badges Occurrence index drawn in the editor gutter
One-click Panel Click the counter to toggle case/word/regex, enter rules, etc.
Peek / Select-All View or multi-cursor-select every match in one command
Custom Rules $TEXT / $RAWTEXT placeholders turn any selection into a regex
Safe & Fast Chunked scanning, regex timeout guard, view-port badge rendering
🚀 Quick Start
Install from the VS Code Marketplace: instant-count.Select text (or just place the cursor on a word).Watch the status-bar counter and gutter badges appear.
Hit Ctrl + Shift + Alt + C (or click the status-bar counter) to open the quick-config panel.
🔍 Advanced Regex Recipes
Below are four ready-to-paste rule examples in the same format used inside the extension.
Example 1: Untranslated i18n Keys
Select: t(Regex Rule: t\(\s*"(en\.)[^"]+"\s*\)Result: Flags t("en.some.key") calls still hard-coded to English.
Example 2: Left-over console.* Calls
Select: consoleRegex Rule: (^|\s)(console\.(log|debug|warn|error))\s*\(Result: Catches any console.log, .debug, .warn, .error still lurking in code.
Example 3: Duplicate Words
Select: the (or any word)Regex Rule: \b$TEXT\s+$TEXT\bResult: Finds “the the”, “return return”, etc., regardless of the word you pick.
Example 4: JSX Components Missing a Prop
Select: MyButtonRegex Rule: <MyButton\b(?![^>]*\bonClick=)Result: Highlights every <MyButton …> with no onClick= prop.
Custom Rule in Action
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⚙️ Configuration Reference
Setting
Default
Description
instant-count.caseSensitivefalseMatch case exactly
instant-count.wholeWordfalseAdd \b…\b boundaries
instant-count.useRegexfalseTreat search pattern as regex
instant-count.showGutterBadgestrueToggle numbered badges
instant-count.showInStatusBartrueToggle status-bar counter
instant-count.regexRules""Custom rule with $TEXT / $RAWTEXT
Open Command Palette → “Instant Count: Settings” for the interactive panel.
⌨️ Useful Commands
Command
Keybinding
What it does
Open Config Panel
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + C (or click the status-bar counter)Toggle case / whole-word / regex / badges in place
Enter Regex Rules
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + RDefine $TEXT rules (validated live)
Select All Matches
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + SMulti-cursor select
Peek All Matches
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + P (or Ctrl + Shift + 3)Open VS Code peek panel
Go to Next / Previous Match
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + . / Ctrl + Shift + Alt + ,Jump between matches, wrap-around
Toggle Case / Whole Word / Regex
Command Palette
Individual mode toggles
(macOS uses Cmd in place of Ctrl.)
Full features (regex rules, whole-word, badges) up to 10 MB / 100k lines .
Beyond that, large-file mode keeps literal counting and viewport badges alive up to 50 MB .
Regex execution has a 1 s watchdog — catastrophic back-tracking aborts with a visible warning instead of freezing.
Badges are only rendered inside (and near) the view-port for zero scroll-lag.
🤝 Contributing
Fork the repo, npm install, press F5 to launch the Extension Host .
Submit pull-requests against the dev branch.
All contributions are released under the MIT license.
📜 License
MIT © 2025 Ali Do
🤝 Contributing
PRs are welcome!
Fork the repo · 2. npm install · 3. Press F5 to launch the Extension Host · 4. Submit a pull-request to main.
🚀 Install
Made with ♥ and a lot of regex.
