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Character Count

Character Count

Adam Stevenson

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40,399 installs
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Markdown Character Count - a status bar contribution that reports out the number of characters in a Markdown document as you interact with it.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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VSCode - Character Count

The Character Count extension for Visual Studio Code counts and displays the number of characters in a Markdown file in the status bar and updates as you type. This was specifically developed because I needed to use character count vice word count in a piece I was developing.

The code in this extension was loosely based on Microsoft's WordCount extension.

Features

Open a Markdown file and the status bar will display the number of characters (including newlines) present in the file. It will be updated as you type.

Known Issues

(none)

Release Notes

0.1.0

Initial release of Character Count extension.

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