Counts the NON-MARKDOWN words of selected text in the editor.
This word count plugin is different in that it considers a word as any non-spaced character string with AT LEAST ONE alpha-numeric character. This is important, because markdown can include A LOT of non-word text, which traditional word counters will display with mis-leadingly large word counts.
This is based on lukeleppan's Better Word Count plugin, though highly modified. I wrote it for personal use, so I'm not going to submit it to the community, but feel free to use the Beta Reviewers Auto-update Tester plugin to bring it into your vault.