A gedit plugin which adds a Label to the status bar with the active documents
linecount, where a line defined as \n,
wordcount, where a word is definied as r"\w+\w*\s?", and
chractercount.
Either run the script ./install.sh provided or:
Copy wordcount.plugin and wordcount.py to ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins then activate from Gedit's plugins dialog.
The plugin is a fork from https://github.com/footley/gedit-wordcount-plugin which supports in addition linecount and charactercount and unicode words.
Install the plugin, run the Gedit and activate the plugin. From then on whenever you type a character you'll see at the bottom panel a summary of lines, words and characters included in the file.