February 18, 2023

Show word count in vim

You can show the number of words in vim by writing a file, a paragraph, etc. to the programme wc.

To display word count of a file, write it to the programme wc:

:w !wc  -w

To display word count of a paragraph, select it:

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and write it to the programme wc:

:w !wc -w

! calls an external programme.

wc is a programm to show characters, lines, words or bytes count of a file.

-w is an option that prompt wc to only show word count.

Run $ man wc in a terminal to see other options.

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