OK, got my license. Thanks!

I hadn't even looked at the command stuff that closely - reminds me a little of TextPad on Windows. This opens up a whole new world of usefulness. I changed your command to:

wc | /usr/bin/awk '{print "lines:", $1, " words:", $2, " chars:", $3}'

That seems to explain the numbers a little better.

Stuart

On 16 Nov 2004, at 16:11, Stuart Wheeler wrote:

Thanks, Allan. Now to put my money where my mouth is and buy a license.

Stuart

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On Nov 16, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Stuart Wheeler wrote:

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Now all I need to do is work out how to determine the number of characters and words I am highlighting (without manually counting them). Is it possible to do that in TextMate at the moment? If I can find that out then I'll buy a license.

You can create a command (menu: Command / Edit Commands…).

Set the Command(s): to “wc”, Standard input to “Selected text” and Standard output to “Show as tooltip”.

If you bind a key to this command, you get the “lines words characters” shown for selected text as a tooltip when you press the key -- it's not as convenient as having the information in the status bar all the time, but I hope it'll make do until I add it.