Subtract value for word/character count

[Pavel Sanda]

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.

Pavel
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