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SnowdogPostSeptember 4, 2022, 10:43
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Another super-lazy one but counting in from the beginning (or end) of a line in order to change something in the "remove & insert" editor can be a bit fiddly when you have to count 20 or 30 characters.

Is there a way of sticking the cursor where you want it & seeing which character that is, or perhaps selecting the section you need to count & seeing how many characters are selected?

2MR2PostSeptember 4, 2022, 11:04
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Nope and nope. I could give you an action to count the number of characters in the clipboard and then to replace the clipboard with the answer.

2MR2PostSeptember 4, 2022, 20:26
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Here's an action to take text from the clipboard and to replace the text with the number of characters.

https://2manyrobots.com/actions/Count-Characters-in-clipboard.-Replace-with-count.zip. Ideally you would put the action on a toolbar icon or give it a keyboard shortcut.

Select some text in a field. Enter command+C. Run the action. Position to where you want the count and enter command+V.

SnowdogPostSeptember 5, 2022, 03:36
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Thanks!

SnowdogPostSeptember 6, 2022, 18:20
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This works really well.

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