[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4807: Word Count

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#4807: Word Count
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 Reporter:  mdawaffe        |        Owner:  mdawaffe
     Type:  enhancement     |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.5.1   
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.3     
 Severity:  minor           |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  has-patch       |  
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Replying to [comment:34 michaelpark]:
 > Hmmm, I think it's still counting punctuations as words.
 Now it strips all characters except the letters and spaces before
 counting. While typing, it still increases the count on every pressing of
 the spacebar (as it did before), so the count would go higher if typing
 numbers for example, but then it's corrected when pressing Enter or after
 pressing Backspace.

 It's not practical to re-count on every pressing of the spacebar as in
 large posts with a lot of HTML tags on slower computers it would interfere
 with the speed of typing.

 The alternative would be to disable the increase of the count on pressing
 the spacebar and to update it only on Enter and after Backspace (at the
 end of each paragraph).

 Also tried to make it remember the position of the last full re-count
 (user pressed Enter), then count only the extra words after that on each
 pressing of the spacebar  (the current paragraph). That would make it more
 accurate while typing, but if the user goes back and deletes some text,
 then continues typing without triggering full re-count, it still would be
 wrong. Can put this back in.

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