Is there any macro or other solution to count the number of characters in a text?
..or, actually, the goal is to set the* height of a a text* *area *editor to match the content. For instance, in the SideEditor opening the sideeditor for a tiddler that has not previously been opened by it (and thus has not saved size values) the editor shows only a few rows, regardless of actual text length. It's enough with an approximate height for the frame, perhaps +/-10% for longer texts, so my idea is to (somehow) get the number of characters, divide it by a hard coded estimated number of characters in a row (or is there any chance to count characters until line wrap? I'd be surprised!) and divide the two to get a rough estimate for how many lines the editor should show by default. It seems there are many small javascript solutions <https://www.google.se/search?q=textarea+auto+height&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=sqmCVpvPCYm4sQHSh6LAAg> to pick from... but that ain't TW so I don't know how to use it. I'm thinking there might already be a solution for "numbers of characters in a text" in tiddlyverse? I did find @Skeeves Wordcount macro <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/0iFKXOfEiy4/1TWawriZ6V4J> and @Jeds Wordcount <http://ooktech.com/jed/ExampleWikis/WordCount/> - neither of which I get to work (hm!?) and I'd really prefer number of characters rather than the number of words, for this. There's also the steamingly fresh Count <http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#count>filter by @Tobias which counts number of tiddler titles - again not what I'm hoping for. Hoping to get pointers or ideas. Thank you! <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/336d448b-7e28-47c2-97f7-3405b83c6a4c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
