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OleMchls / atom-wordcount

Counts the words in your current document
https://atom.io/packages/wordcount
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Feature request: words until cursor #116

Open olafklingt opened 5 years ago

olafklingt commented 5 years ago

It would be great to have an option to list the number of words until the cursor position.

OleMchls commented 5 years ago

I can imagine this feature, by pressing an option key (e.g. alt) that'd update the display for the time the key is pressed. If you or anyone would like to pick this up, that would be cool!

olafklingt commented 5 years ago

I don't clearly understand which behaviour you suggest. I think you want to avoid another option in the plug in settings, right?

OleMchls commented 5 years ago

I don't clearly understand which behaviour you suggest. I think you want to avoid another option in the plug in settings, right?

Exactly. I think this is valuable information, but can be achieved by without a settings flag, because it's something you want to see just every once in a while, and when you need it you don't want to switch to the settings. So what about only displaying this when a certain option key is defined?