Subtract value for word/character count

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 02:23:10 UTC 2024


On 3/28/24 12:17, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 02:26:59PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 3/25/24 17:46, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 06:35:16PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>>> Actually, I am not sure how it helps. Knowing that you need to remove 140
>>>> words is not useful in itself.
>>> The idea is that I set the difference value to the current count and
>>> I am aiming for -140.
>>>
>>> Which brings me to even simpler UI than I previously thought.
>>> Instead of entering some values as an argument I could simply
>>> have lfun that sets the difference to the current statistics
>>> value and be done with it.
>> If you want to post it when/if it's done, I'll be happy to look at it.
> Essentially the attached.
>
> Variables should be more hidden and I can add reset mechanism if this
> feature looks ok. I am happy even without context menu change, still
> less code out of the tree to maintain.

I can easily imagine using this. I'd say go ahead, for 2.4.1.

Riki




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