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zdena:
Hello,
if I make a selection of text in the code, can I get somehow the length (number of selected characters) of the selection?

oBFusCATed:
At the moment I don't think it is possible.

BlueHazzard:
What would you like to do with it?
How would you like to get it?
I think it would not be to difficult to add a script binding...

zdena:
@oBFusCATed: Thank you.

@BlueHazzard:

* It could help me with counting characters in a (long) string if it could fit in a char array.
* I don't know how. But for example Programmer's Notepad can count it.
* I am not so good to write scripts.

BlueHazzard:
This would be a quite easy fix:

--- Code: ---diff --git a/src/src/main.cpp b/src/src/main.cpp
index 87e5c5e5c..df2ff0655 100644
--- a/src/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/src/main.cpp
@@ -2055,7 +2055,7 @@ void MainFrame::DoCreateStatusBar()
     dc.GetTextExtent(_(" Highlight Button "),                &widths[num++], &h);
     dc.GetTextExtent(_(" Windows (CR+LF) "),                 &widths[num++], &h);
     dc.GetTextExtent(_(" WINDOWS-1252 "),                    &widths[num++], &h);
-    dc.GetTextExtent(_(" Line 12345, Col 123, Pos 123456 "), &widths[num++], &h);
+    dc.GetTextExtent(_(" Line 12345, Col 123, Pos 123456, Sel 123456 "), &widths[num++], &h);
     dc.GetTextExtent(_(" Overwrite "),                       &widths[num++], &h);
     dc.GetTextExtent(_(" Modified "),                        &widths[num++], &h);
     dc.GetTextExtent(_(" Read/Write "),                      &widths[num++], &h);
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ void MainFrame::DoUpdateStatusBar()
         }
         SetStatusText(msg, panel++);
         SetStatusText(ed->GetEncodingName(), panel++);
-        msg.Printf(_("Line %d, Col %d, Pos %d"), control->GetCurrentLine() + 1, control->GetColumn(pos) + 1, pos);
+        msg.Printf(_("Line %d, Col %d, Pos %d, Sel %d"), control->GetCurrentLine() + 1, control->GetColumn(pos) + 1, pos, control->GetSelectionEnd() - control->GetSelectionStart());
         SetStatusText(msg, panel++);
         SetStatusText(control->GetOvertype() ? _("Overwrite") : _("Insert"), panel++);
 #if wxCHECK_VERSION(3, 0, 0)

--- End code ---

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