[TxMt] Character and Word Counting of Highlighted Text

[Stuart Wheeler]

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

Stuart


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