Re: Number of selected characters.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> Le 04/01/2011 17:34, Dave Page a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>> Le 04/01/2011 16:27, Dave Page a écrit :
>>>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>>>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>>>> Ch is not obvious either. But, what about Sel?
>>>>
>>>> It is obvious when it changes to a new value every time you move the
>>>> cursor. Sl (or Sel) isn't - you don't see it change in normal
>>>> operation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We could hide it when there is no selection.
>>
>> It it had it's own panel, was empty when there was no selection, and
>> had a slightly more descriptive text ("N chars"?), I could probably
>> live with it.
>>
>
> Done. Patch and screenshots attached.
>
> Does it look like what you intended?

Much better - though I still think it should say:

33 chars

not

sel 33

which is pretty cryptic.

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