This is a Visual Studio Code extension aimed at authors who write in Markdown. Its intent is to provide useful statistics as you write via the status bar.

• Display the count of visible words (excluding comments)
• Display the count of total words (including comments)
• TODO: Display readability

None

• Ignore Pandoc title block
• Ignore YAML front matter
• Ignore TOML front matter
• Ignore JSON front matter

Initial release!

This is loosely based on the vscode-wordcount sample extention.

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