Exclude YAML front matter / LaTeX preamble?

[cands]

Thanks for making this excellent tool! I wonder would it be possible to implement functionality to exclude certain parts in a document, I am in particular thinking about a YAML front matter section in Markdown, and also the preamble part in a LaTeX document.

[Kirozen]

Not really in the current implementation. For now, you are able to do it by selecting the text you want to include. I keep this issue in mind if I find something but nothing planned

[cands]

Thanks for the explanation and for considering to possibly implement it in the future.

[igelstorm]

I do a fair bit of writing in VSCode, and could really use a word count extension that can handle this and other similar things, like HTML comments (see also #38) and code blocks.

As far as I can tell, there's no other extension that does this, so I have been thinking about implementing it myself.

@Kirozen, would you be interested in contributions to this repo if I get round to looking at this? It seems more sensible to contribute to an existing project than reinvent the wheel yet again, and this seems like the most popular and well-developed extension that isn't just a minimally altered fork of ms-vscode.wordcount.