There is no status bar for the TextEdit application on the Mac to show the word or the line count of a file.
If you want to know the number of lines in a file using TextEdit, you would need to use a hack using the Find option.
- Open the file in TextEdit
- Now go to Edit -> Find -> Find... (or simply press Command + F)
- Now on the search icon (magnifying glass, click on Insert Pattern.
- Choose line break.
- You should see a count of all the line breaks in the file and this is the number of lines (add one to the count) in the file.
As you can see I get a count of 4, need to add one to get the total count of the lines the file.
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