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Count search results in gedit.

gepostet am 20.04.2010

Update May 5:
Count results are now being displayed in the Status Bar instead of an alert window. Also, there were a couple of bug fixes. Feel free to download the new version at the provided download link below or at github!

Lately I was looking for a small but missing feature in gedit: I needed to be able to count all occurrances of a selected word. This is a standard feature in many other editors such as Notepad++ in the Windows world, for example. However, I didn’t come across a solution on the net, so I decided to write a little plug-in myself.

What it does: After marking a word the plug-in counts all occurrances of the selection in the current document. It adds a new button to the toolbar and an entry to the menu right in the “Search” section. On top of that you may trigger counting the selection by hitting “CTRL+SHIFT+F”. A small pop-up window will appear and show the results of the search. The results will be displayed in the status bar of the window.

How to use it: Simply mark a word, and have a look at the statusbar: The number of search results will be displayed there.

If you find it useful, feel free to download the plug-in here:
Download gedittools plug-in for gedit.

Donwload at github:

http://github.com/mmuell23/mmuell23

git clone http://github.com/mmuell23/mmuell23.git
cp -r mmuell23/gedittools/* ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins

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8 Responses to “Count search results in gedit.”

  1. by daxue:
    May 4th, 2010 at 16:10

    Thanks. I’ve wanted for long time for my Ubuntu.

  2. by daxue:
    May 5th, 2010 at 09:17

    Suggestions: (1) integrate this function into search dialog. (2) when nothing is selected, pop up a dialog to enter text for counting.

    Bug: Give wrong number of occurances for some texts (eg, [0]).

  3. by Matt:
    May 5th, 2010 at 09:56

    Thanks for the bug report!
    This is fixed now. Feel free to download again at github:

    http://github.com/mmuell23/mmuell23

    Or here:

    countsearchresults.tar.gz

  4. by daxue:
    May 7th, 2010 at 09:57

    Most characters giving wrong counts when they are concatenated, eg., ‘dd’, search ‘d’ and gave 1.

    Character ‘>’ couldn’t be found.

  5. by Matt:
    May 7th, 2010 at 11:57

    Hi daxue,

    with the newest version this works fine. Tested it using your examples. Did you install the latest version of “gedittools” from the github repository?

    git clone http://github.com/mmuell23/mmuell23.git

    Then copy all files under gedittools to ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins

    Be sure to delete the old plugin before doing that.

    Let me know if it works!

  6. by Charlie:
    May 11th, 2010 at 16:14

    Very useful, ta

    Noticed that the Gedit search menu shows the text:

    “Count occurances of selection”

    The correct spelling is “occurrences”, small point but I’m sure you’d want to know.

    Thanks again.

  7. by Matthias Müller:
    May 12th, 2010 at 05:43

    Thanks, Charlie! Will correct that.

  8. by Nimrod Milo:
    September 5th, 2010 at 23:22

    Hi,
    This is a great tool but it doesn’t work well with large files. when I try to use large files after installing the plugin the gedit is much slower.

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