TheJackiMonster
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1 year ago In general I like the idea to configure how words are being counted depending on the language and even potentially style of writing. The issue with that is currently counting words is a potential bottleneck when it comes to responsiveness because we need to count all words in a file every time a single character changes.
The current implementation uses a regular expression for that which is a lot faster than previous implementations. However regular expressions have the downside to be rather complicated to adjust (it wouldn't be great for users to expose it directly, I assume).
So before we add the option to configure that, I think performance needs to improve. For example reducing the portion of text which needs to be processed after changes as well as delaying the counting asynchronously would help.
I was looking here in the “issues” tab, I saw that there is a person complaining about the dash not being counted as a word when placed between two words. I write in Portuguese and in my language it's not a word, it's a punctuation mark. So, my question is: would it be possible for us to add “words” that should be ignored in the count? Because I always have to put a bigger “goal” of words to cover the number of times I use a dash, usually about 100 words more, but it's never necessary. Anyway, that's my question! Thank you all in advance.