Subtract value for word/character count

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 25/03/2024 à 18:31, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit :
> Le 25/03/2024 à 17:09, Pavel Sanda a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> evil and external sources sometimes declare that I need to cut my 
>> document
>> by certain amount of characters/words :)
>> Mentally tracking the difference (e.g. 4587 - 150 words) while editing is
>> somewhat annoying.
>>
>> I plan to add possibility for subtractive value applied to our statistics
>> function so I can easily see the relative counts and track my progress.
>>
>> However I am not sure how much is my usecase obscure in general and
>> thus whether I should upstream some reasonable UI/lfun (preffered) --
>> or should I just go for simple hack for my personal patchset.
>>
>> Objections if I add this?
>> (For 2.5.x and 2.4.1/2 if Riki agrees).
> 
> Propose a lfun syntax and/or a UI, and we'll see how natural this feels.

Actually, I am not sure how it helps. Knowing that you need to remove 
140 words is not useful in itself. What matter is how close you are, and 
I'd think that the difference is not a much better indicator than the 
real value. But I am not the one who needs to count words.

JMarc