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I recall that when selecting a block of text in Sublime Text the status bar used to display the word count. This answer confirms that I recall correctly, Sublime Text 3 used to show that information:

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I'm running Sublime Text 4 (Build 4143) and this information is no longer displayed. Only lines and character counts are shown:

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Is this feature hidden in the settings somewhere or did ST remove it entirely? If so, why??

Gabriel
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  • https://packagecontrol.io/packages/WordingStatus , you can try a package – freezing_ Dec 10 '22 at 13:24
  • Thank you, I am aware of the packages that count words. I am asking about a very useful feature that came integrated with the editor and that apparently was removed for some reason. – Gabriel Dec 10 '22 at 13:25

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Sublime does not and has never had this power without a plugin. Seen below is a screen shot of the last version of Sublime Text 3 with no settings or packages and some text selected.

The counts displayed are for the selected lines and characters, but not words; there is also no setting in the core that enables this.

Sublime Text 3 image of selected text

The answer you linked is to a question where someone is asking about the WordCount package itself, and in particular asking about how to apply a setting. The answer states that you just need to select text to see counts in the status bar without having to set any setting, which is true:

Sublime Text 3 with the WordCount plugin installed

OdatNurd
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  • Thank you very much, I hadn't realized that the question I linked was discussing that package and I was sure that feature was present in ST at some point – Gabriel Dec 11 '22 at 11:12