Count search results in gedit.
posted: 20.04.2010Update September 21:
After all, I found some time to reimplement the algorithm for highlighting XML. It is now triggered by a new button in the toolbar. As it now does not run automatically, this will be another improvement to overall speed. Feel free to download the new version at the provided download link below or at github!
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:
http://github.com/mmuell23/mmuell23
git clone http://github.com/mmuell23/mmuell23.git cp -r mmuell23/gedittools/* ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
May 4th, 2010 at 16:10
Thanks. I’ve wanted for long time for my Ubuntu.
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]).
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
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.
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!
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.
May 12th, 2010 at 05:43
Thanks, Charlie! Will correct that.
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.
September 22nd, 2010 at 07:19
Hi Nimrod,
check the latest release at Github. The speed has massively improved due to a new algorithm.
Matt
May 1st, 2011 at 06:36
Thanks for the search counter. It’s working flawlessly.
Regards
October 26th, 2011 at 08:27
if the keyword is at the first line, it always return 0 as the counted elements