Re: Number of selected characters.

Le 04/01/2011 14:43, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>> Le 16/12/2010 01:25, Vinicius Santos a écrit :
>>> Em 15/12/2010 21:55, Vinicius Santos escreveu:
>>>>
>>>> I'm sending a patch.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Or Better.
>>>
>>
>> Commited. I replaced the / character with a comma, but nothing else.
>> Thanks for this patch.
>
> Sorry - I missed this. I object to this patch for a number of reasons:
>
> - It's not even remotely obvious what "Sl" means in the status bar.
>

Ch is not obvious either. But, what about Sel?

> - It's of extremely limited utility in my opinion.
>

Doesn't seem like a good reason to me. Actually, I read this as "it has
a utility to some". So I don't see why we have to get rid of it. We
probably don't have the time to do it, but as somebody wrote it...

> - It clutters the already busy status bar.
>

It doesn't take a lot of space. I understand the status bar contains a
lot of stuff, but this is not much to add.

> - It adds statistical information in an area of the status bar that is
> used to convey positional information.
>

It could get its own cell, if this is what you mean.


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