Re: All program word/character count question
On May 14, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: This search primarily involves Mail (running 2.1.3 on 10.4.11), but I could use this in other applications. Absolute best case scenario, I am looking for something that would do the following. Highlight a block of text in a program. Right (or control) click on it and in the contextual menu would pop up either an option for word/ char count or, ideally in my own little world, would immediately show that in the contextual menu. Background, FWIW. I send my brother a LOT of texts relating to business. I find it infinitely easier to send an email from my computer than to use my cell. Many cell carriers offer this option, for example 3015551...@vtext.com is for Verizon. Sometimes I go over the 160 character limit and important stuff is cut off. When I think about it I launch Word and use that count, but I would love a contextual menu plug in. I found CountChar at MacUpdate, but, alas, 10.5 only. Any one have any ideas? Check out WordService, a free OS X service from Devon Technologies, that works in any application. The included 'Statistics' service gives you word/character counts, and it comes with a bunch of other useful text manipulation services as well. http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html Fabian -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: All program word/character count question
On May 14, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: Background, FWIW. I send my brother a LOT of texts relating to business. I find it infinitely easier to send an email from my computer than to use my cell. Many cell carriers offer this option, for example 3015551...@vtext.com is for Verizon. Sometimes I go over the 160 character limit and important stuff is cut off. When I think about it I launch Word and use that count, but I would love a contextual menu plug in. Dunno about contextual menu but here's some info about a syste-wide service to do this: http://tinyurl.com/34ds6qw and the relevant Gruber post: http://tinyurl.com/23af2g AND JOY OF JOY!! I JUST discovered that one of the upgrades to Services in OS X 10.6 is that relevant services appear in the contextual menus!! This saves me a trip to the services menu for the ShrinkURL service. WooHoo! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: All program word/character count question
On May 14, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Fabian Fang wrote: On May 14, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: This search primarily involves Mail (running 2.1.3 on 10.4.11), but I could use this in other applications. Absolute best case scenario, I am looking for something that would do the following. Highlight a block of text in a program. Right (or control) click on it and in the contextual menu would pop up either an option for word/ char count or, ideally in my own little world, would immediately show that in the contextual menu. Background, FWIW. I send my brother a LOT of texts relating to business. I find it infinitely easier to send an email from my computer than to use my cell. Many cell carriers offer this option, for example 3015551...@vtext.com is for Verizon. Sometimes I go over the 160 character limit and important stuff is cut off. When I think about it I launch Word and use that count, but I would love a contextual menu plug in. I found CountChar at MacUpdate, but, alas, 10.5 only. Any one have any ideas? Check out WordService, a free OS X service from Devon Technologies, that works in any application. The included 'Statistics' service gives you word/character counts, and it comes with a bunch of other useful text manipulation services as well. http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html Fabian Thanks, It works great for what it does. Much easier than firing up Word. Now, for lazy ol' me, if I could find the same thing that pops up when I right click instead of mousing ALL THE WAY to the menu bar life would be wonderful. Len -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: All program word/character count question
It works great for what it does. Much easier than firing up Word. Now, for lazy ol' me, if I could find the same thing that pops up when I right click instead of mousing ALL THE WAY to the menu bar life would be wonderful. I typically use pbpaste | wc as a command in Terminal.app to count the words and characters on the clipboard. But Terminal is always open and ready on this machine. It would be fairly easy to create an AppleScript application using do shell script which does that with the result that you could copy or COMMAND C the text you're interested in and execute the script. man wc for details. -- -- Give me liberty or give me Obamacare -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: All program word/character count question
On May 14, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: It works great for what it does. Much easier than firing up Word. Now, for lazy ol' me, if I could find the same thing that pops up when I right click instead of mousing ALL THE WAY to the menu bar life would be wonderful. I typically use pbpaste | wc as a command in Terminal.app to count the words and characters on the clipboard. But Terminal is always open and ready on this machine. It would be fairly easy to create an AppleScript application using do shell script which does that with the result that you could copy or COMMAND C the text you're interested in and execute the script. man wc for details. That probably works fine. I am just trying to be EXTREMELY lazy on this. With WordService installed all you do is highlight the text, then go to (Application name menu, ie: Mail) -Services-Statistics and it pops up with the counts. And on my DA, that runs a LOT faster than an Applescript. Len -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
