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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 + R
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: console
Regex 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\b
Result: Finds “the the”, “return return”, etc., regardless of the word you pick.
Example 4: JSX Components Missing a Prop
Select: MyButton
Regex Rule: <MyButton\b(?![^>]*\bonClick=)
Result: Highlights every <MyButton …>
with no onClick=
prop.
Custom Rule in Action
Before
After
⚙️ Configuration Reference
Setting
Default
Description
instant-count.caseSensitive
false
Match case exactly
instant-count.wholeWord
false
Add \b…\b
boundaries
instant-count.useRegex
false
Treat search pattern as regex
instant-count.showGutterBadges
true
Toggle numbered badges
instant-count.showInStatusBar
true
Toggle 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
Toggle Case
none
Switch case sensitivity
Toggle Whole Word
none
Add/remove word boundaries
Toggle Regex Mode
none
Literal ↔ regex
Peek All Matches
Ctrl + Shift + 3
Open VS Code peek panel
Select All Matches
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S
Multi-cursor select
Chunked scanning keeps UI fluid even on 10 MB+ files.
Regex execution has a 500 ms timeout guard to avoid catastrophic back-tracking freezes.
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.