On 25.06.2007, at 19:51, Robert M. Zigweid wrote:

Greetings. I saw a neat feature in another editor, and I was wondering if there was similar functionality in TextMate. If there is, I haven't found it yet and a pointer would be most appreciated.

When making a selection, I was wondering if there was some interface point that easily displayed how many characters were selected.

My use case? Constructing HTTP Requests and wishing to supply the accurate content length quickly and easily. I can imagine other use cases as well, but this is the one that I can see needing most often.

You will find the content of your selection in the TM variable TM_SELECTED_TEXT. Now is up to you, what kind of programming language do you prefer and what encoding to you need.

in bash: echo "$TM_SELECTED_TEXT" | wc -c

in Perl: length($ENV['TM_SELECTED_TEXT'])

etc.

If you have to deal with utf-8 then one solution would be to use Ruby's/Perl's split(//u) function ...

Or you can calculate the length by using the TM variables:

TM_LINE_INDEX - TM_INPUT_START_LINE_INDEX

this only works for ASCII

...

You can use 'Filter through command' Input: Selection Command: wc -c Output: Show Tool Tip

#this works for ascii

etc....

Hans

Hi,

When making a selection, I was wondering if there was some interface point that easily displayed how many characters were selected.

This is very easy to achieve. See the attached command.

(just pipes the selected text through wc -c)

Patrick

On 25.06.2007, at 19:51, Robert M. Zigweid wrote:

When making a selection, I was wondering if there was some interface point that easily displayed how many characters were selected.

Just for completeness’ sake:

Or yo can press ⇧⌃N [Text Bundle → Statistics for Document / Selection (Word Count)] which does the following behind the scenes:

wc -lwc|tr \ \n|grep '..*'|rev|perl -pe 's/\d{3}(?=.)/$&,/g'| rev|{ for unit in lines words bytes; do read cnt printf "%11.11s %s\n" $cnt $unit done }

So, yes, it is already built in.

regards, Soryu.