micro-editor / micro-editor/micro
Selection size indicator in the status line
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Description
Description of the problem
- In selection mode there is no obvious way to know how many lines I have selected.
- Many editors display number of lines in the selection in the status bar/line.
- If vertical block mode is implemented, it would be nice to have number of columns also displayed there.
- wc or another plugin could hook up to the editor to count and display sentences, words, characters in the selection (this is probably fodder for another featreq, though).
Use cases
- Editing files with many similar lines.
- (for word counting plugins) Editing size-limited text features (abstracts, summaries).
Priority
Low - it's a 'keep up with the Joneses' feature for the arithmetically challenged.
Specifications
Version: 1.1.5-dev.52
Commit hash: 53a19af
OS: Linux
Terminal: gnome-terminal
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by tracing how the terminal status line is rendered and how selection-mode state is represented; done means the status line shows the selected line count, with column count addressed only if vertical block mode exists.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100