On Mon, Mar 25, 2024, at 12:35 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 05:09:29PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > 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).
>
> No particular objection, but it would be nice to get a +1 from another user.
> I think it's common to have a specific maximum amount of characters/words,
> but I have not heard before of a use case where feedback is "you need to cut
> 150 words from your current 4587 words".
I think the use case would be "the maximum number of words is 5000, and you
have used 5280, so you currently have to cut 280 words" or "the maximum number
of words is 5000, and you have used 4587, so you can write another 413"? I
could conceive of using this feature.
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