Count of lines in a document

[One208]

What I’m trying to do

Hi want to display count of lines [ Total Lines in the document] preferably in status Bar or at top of document

Things I have tried

Done search on google & the forum → no suggestions

Please help. Thank you

[rigmarole]

“Better Word Count” plugin can do sentences. I’m not personally sure of any way of counting blocks/paragraphs.

“Novel Word Count” plugin can count “pages”, which is based on a word count you can specify.

I think counting “lines” would depend on the size of your tab or pane, and how the words are wrapping. Do you mean lines that ignore wrapping?

[One208]

Thanks rigmarole for looking at it

I mean the actual number of lines you see when enabling "show line number " in Editor
It would give the size of the document
I don’t think it depends on line wrap or size of tab/ pane
Cheers

[Acylation]

To access the actual line count of your current note, you can put app.workspace.activeEditor.editor.lineCount() in your console. (ctrl + shift + i/j on windows, and cmd + option + i/j on MacOS).

You can build a plugin base on the sample, and modify the status bar text here.

Note that it won’t exclude the properties lines.

[One208]

Thank you for looking into this @Acylation , did not know that console exists !
The code works perfectly in the console. I would give plugin a try
Btw, is there a way to use the code in the document itself or in frontmatter?
Cheers

[AlanG]

@One208

Btw, is there a way to use the code in the document itself

You could do it with Dataview in your document like this:

Lines: `$=app.workspace.activeEditor.editor.lineCount()`

Will show

Lines: 25

or whatever, and it will automatically update.

[One208]

Works perfect, Thank you @AlanG