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Helping Friendly Counter

Helping Friendly Counter

Jonathan Shapiro

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229 installs
| (1) | Free
Easily count lines as well as sum/average/count values when you highlight them
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Helping Friendly Counter

Access

  • Download the extension on the VSCode Marketplace
  • Find the repository on GitHub

Features

VSCode Extension that adds a status bar item detailing:

  • Count the selected lines of text
  • Calculates Average, Sum and Count of numbers within the text

Demonstration

main features Recorded using LICEcap / ASCII Art by asciiart.eu

Feel free to submit issues or additional features

Commands

Friendly Color

Allows you to change the color of the extension. If you want to update it permanently, go to Code > Preferences > Settings > Extensions > Helping Friendly Counter and update the settings.json

Known Issues

  • Highlighting text such as -3-4 reads as an invalid number unless -3 or -4 is just highlighted and therefore just shows line count

Notes

  • The name of this extension is an homage to the band Phish and their Helping Friendly Book.
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