Working with text and prose in Vim

text.vim

" ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/text.vim

let line_count = line('$')
let b:word_count = 0

" TTS using vim-piper plugin. Point to your installation
let g:piper_bin='/home/woland/tmp/piper/piper-bin/piper/piper'
let g:piper_voice='/home/woland/tmp/piper/piper-voices/en/en_US/joe/medium/en_US-joe-medium.onnx'

" This condition is for those who read large txt file in vim
if line_count > 1000
    colorscheme habamax
    setlocal laststatus=0 showtabline=0
    syntax off
    filetype plugin indent off
else
    colorscheme slate
    setlocal wrap textwidth=0 
    setlocal linebreak showbreak=⌡ 
    setlocal scrolloff=50 foldmethod=marker 
    setlocal list listchars=tab:▷\ ,trail:. 
    setlocal spell! spelllang=en_us spellsuggest=double,5 
    setlocal wildmode=longest,list,full
    setlocal laststatus=2 pumheight=10

    syntax off
    filetype plugin indent off

    packadd vim-ddgpb " for searching ddg from vim either in xdg-browser or in w3m  and tmux
    packadd vimdict " vim interface for dictd
    packadd vim-piper " vim interface to piper tts
    packadd vim-highlighter " highlighting plugin (not mine)

    nnoremap ]g ]s
    nnoremap [g [s
    nnoremap j gj
    nnoremap k gk
    inoremap <Tab> <C-n>
    inoremap <S-Tab> <C-p>
    nnoremap <ESC> :nohlsearch<CR><ESC>
endif

" Functions
function! UpdateWordCount()
    let lines = getline(1, '$')
    let full_text = join(lines, " ")
    let words = split(full_text, '\W\+')
    let b:word_count = len(words)
endfunction

function FixSpell()
	normal! 1z=
endfunction
command! FixSpell call FixSpell()
nnoremap gs :FixSpell<CR>

" Autocmds
augroup WordCount
    autocmd!
    autocmd VimEnter,BufReadPost,BufWritePost,TextChanged,TextChangedI * call UpdateWordCount()
    autocmd VimEnter * highlight SpellBad ctermfg=16 ctermbg=68 guifg=#000000 guibg=#5f87d7 cterm=italic
    autocmd VimEnter * :Hi load
    autocmd VimLeave * :Hi save
augroup END

" StatusLine
setlocal statusline=%f\ %r%=%{b:word_count}w\ %l/%L

highlight StatusLine guifg=#afaf87 guibg=#333333
highlight StatusLineNC guifg=#afaf87 guibg=#333333

This config has references to these plugins:

https://github.com/wolandark/vimdict
https://github.com/wolandark/vim-ddgpb
https://github.com/wolandark/vim-piper

and

https://github.com/azabiong/vim-highlighter

Clone to ~/.vim/pack/plugins/opt/