Feature request

[Mike Ray]

Hello

I would like to make a feature request.

As I am a blind user of SciTE, an excellent programming editor on
Windows, and now on Linux too, since the GTK accessibility improvements,
I would like an addition to the status bar.

Both the screen readers I use have hot keys for reading the status bar,
which tells me the line, character, whether I am in overlay or insert
mode, and what my line-endings are set to.

Is it possible to add to this the count of the number of characters
currently selected?

So, if I were to select some characters, say in a binary string of ones
and zeros, the status bar would tell me how many I have selected.

I can see this may be a problem if a whole file were selected and the
number is very large. My own preference is for situations where I only
have some characters on a single line selected.

Mike

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[Neil Hodgson]

Mike Ray:

> Is it possible to add to this the count of the number of characters
> currently selected?

On GTK, the status bar contents are set with the statusbar.text.1 property and on Win32 by statusbar.text.1 .. statusbar.text.4 properties. Add $(SelLength) to statusbar.text.1 to show the selection length.

Neil

[Mike Ray]

That's great Neil. I had not looked at the config files. Silly me.

Good stuff.