Richard Heck <rgheck <at> comcast.net> writes: > > If someone wants to implement this, and have it off by default, I > suppose they can do so, but I can't see the point of it. Do you really > need to know, as you type each character, how many characters there are?
I never understood the need for the number of characters count in any case, including under Tools->Statistics. But an auto-updating number of words (say, when idle, every 5 seconds) is really handy.
