I’ve noticed that the kate status bar is capable of displaying the character and word count from a highlighted selection, but for some reason not the line count right now. Could this information be added to the status bar?
hi, welcome.
if you right click on the status bar text showing the counts there is a check box for line count.
but, as you say, it only shows the current line and the total number of lines (if the box is checked).
it does not show the number of lines out of the total count that are selected like it does with the word and character counts in the form of xx/nnnn
likely because when it comes to lines (and columns), the cursor position is more important than a count of selected/total .
but since a check box for line count was added, it should also include a count of the lines selected, just as the other counts do for words and characters when you enable the word count checkbox.
this could be a feature request at bugs.kde.org as a “wishlist” item for kate.
i think is should still remain behind a check box that is not selected by default because there is computational load associated with these counts.