Subtract value for word/character count

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 3/25/24 13:31, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that's my suggestion, too.

Riki