Is it possible to put word count on lightline?

[alienbogart]

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[itchyny]

I googled for word count vim and found a script https://gist.github.com/cormacrelf/d0bee254f5630b0e93c3. Example configuration using this function:

let g:lightline = {
      \ 'active': {
      \   'right': [ [ 'lineinfo' ], [ 'percent', 'wordcount' ], [ 'fileformat', 'fileencoding', 'filetype' ] ]
      \ },
      \ 'component_function': {
      \   'wordcount': 'WordCount',
      \ },
      \ }

[andreas-bulling]

Hi, I tried your solution but it doesn't work - nothing is shown in the statusline... Do I have to enable/do something else to make this work? Calling the WordCount function directly does work, though.

Thanks a lot!

[itchyny]

@andreas-bulling It works for me. Please paste your configuration or link to your vimrc.

[KargJonas]

Worked like a charm!
If you are having trouble with a separate file, just put the function directly into .vimrc

[MariusSwane]

The above script (in the link) works well, but if you are on newer versions of vim/neovim you can now use the following script to get selected words count and words 'so far'.

"new in vim 7.4.1042
let g:word_count=wordcount().words
function WordCount()
    if has_key(wordcount(),'visual_words')
        let g:word_count=wordcount().visual_words."/".wordcount().words " count selected words
    else
        let g:word_count=wordcount().cursor_words."/".wordcount().words " or shows words 'so far'
    endif
    return g:word_count
endfunction